Thread: Shoulder Injuries & How To Prevent Them

Npp or deca does help during cycle, but it's like putting a band aid on a much serious issue

I know know how you feel. I have had two shoulder surgery's. It will kill your bench press. I can't go heavy on bench anymore. I just rep out now and do high rep sets for bench. Deca does help

Great info Pain, points one and seven apply to my injury four months back.

1. Do not ignore shoulder pain. Training through the pain will only lead to further and more severe injury.
7. Strengthen the middle and lower traps and rhomboids to increase shoulder stability and ensure better scapular stabilization. Avoid protracted shoulder postural problems.

I had an injured point of insertion located at the middle center of my delt. The DR. said it was a point where my trapezius inserted.
Decline bench and Dips irritated it the most, I pused through until the bursae next to the point of insertion was always inflammed.
I was overtraining and got screwed, I ended up runnning a 6 week cycle of test/tren and 800mg motrin daily. Trained only movements that did'nt use the traps or right delt much.
Not sure if this was the best move but it worked for me.
Took 6 weeks to heal properly!

hey bros. im new here and saw this thread. i did a small write up on shoulder injuries a while back on a different board. i'll cut and paste it here too....

Shoulder injuries are quite common among athletes. Weight training subjects the rotator cuff, labrum, and the joint itself to many different forces not usually seen in the daily life of the common individual. Injuries can occur in different ways. Some happen throughout time and others can happen acutely.
To better understand injuries I’ll discuss the anatomy of the shoulder first. In my opinion the shoulder is the most structurally complex joint in the body. Basically, the head of the humerus articulates with the glenoid (ball and socket). The glenoid is the socket that extends off of your scapula. The distal end of the clavicle also is part of the shoulder joint. What actually makes the shoulder complex is how it’s all held together.
Around the glenoid is your labrum. The labrum is a ring of cartilage that’s responsible for keeping your shoulder stable throughout range of motion. Since the glenoid is not a deep socket, the labrum circles around it making it deeper.
Injuries to the labrum are almost always treatable through therapy or arthroscopy. Typically you see three specific tears within the labrum and each has its own symptoms associated with the injury.
1) SLAP tear: a tear from the Superior Labrum that travels from Anterior to Posterior. In the weight room it can most commonly happen when there is an overhead pulling motion involved. Using too much weight or poor form can easily be the culprit. Symptoms include: a popping feeling when making a throwing motion, a catching sensation, and deep shoulder aches.
2) Bankart Lesion: occurs when the joint is stressed enough to sublux or dislocate. When the shoulder begins to come out of the joint the labrum typically tears. This will lead to an unstable shoulder. Weight trainers will notice this typically during two exercises, dumbbell chest press and dumbbell shoulder press. When the press is completed, people often bring the weights together until they touch at the peak of the press. Typically those with a bankart lesion will feel a slight slipping sensation of the humeral head.
3) Posterior Labral tear: also called internal impingement, this tear occurs when the rotator cuff becomes pinched within the labrum. It is the least common labral injury but when it’s seen it is almost always in an athlete. It is characterized as being very painful with each occurrence.
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We commonly hear of weight trainers injuring their rotator cuff. A cuff tear is probably the most common injury to the shoulder obtained through lifting weights. The rotator cuff is what actually keeps your shoulder in place. It is also responsible for lifting and rotating your arm. The cuff is made up of four muscles(suprasinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, subscapularis); each of them can be torn individually. When the cuff it torn it is typically torn where the cuff tendon attaches to the head of the humerus.
The most common for a weight lifter is a tear in the supraspinatus. The injury typically begins with the tendon starting to fray. This begins to weaken the area. Once it has been weakened, typically heavy weights will complete the tear.
The supraspinatus can either experience a partial thickness tear, where soft tissue becomes damaged but it is not completely severed, or a full thickness tear. In a full thickness tear the soft tissue is split in two pieces. When a full thickness tear occurs it renders the muscle useless. Often times the other muscles of the rotator cuff can make up for the torn one. The deltoid can also begin to be used for some additional motion. This is great for those who only tear one muscle but the load of the specific arm is now being accounted for by two or three muscles opposed to four.
Symptoms of a cuff tear are typically: pain while resting, pain lifting your arm straight from the side, or straight up, and substantial weakness in certain range of motion exercises.
A full thickness tear will not get better with time. The muscle retracts and has to be brought back to the footprint (anatomical attachment) with a suture anchor. It cannot do this on its own.
Partial thickness tears in younger healthy individuals can often repair themselves with scar tissue formation. This does not happen without resting the joint for 8-12 weeks. If the joint is continually stressed, a full thickness tear is inevitable.

Good info bro. I have had to many buddies hurt their shoulders