Injured Shoulder

[mvan3030]

I have an injury to my shoulder, nothing serious, but it has been lingering. It is just a muscle issue and I was trying to ignore it however I figured I better rest it so that it can heal. I am still training and lifting but trying to avoid shoulder/chest exercises because that is when it hurts.

I decided, since it is my right shoulder that is hurt, that i will just do shoulder/chest exercises with my left arm. Does this seem like it is worth it?

 

[Klotz]

Sounds like an injury I had a few years ago. It got better after about six weeks. Work out, but don't do pushing exercises. If you must, do dumbell overhead presses with your good arm.

Also: talk to a doctor before taking advice from random schmoes on the internet.

 

[ronin0352]

Klotz is correct. DB exercises with the uninjured side are definitely worth doing. And a doctor would be best to talk to. I am currently rehabbing a rotator cuff surgery so I haven't lifted more than 10 pounds with my right arm since November. But I've been doing a ton of DB work with the left side for a couple months now.

 

[mvan3030]

I was kind of waiting for somene to tell me that I would become lopsided or some crap like that... I guess that is probably unlikely.

I just go crazy if I can't train, so I am happy to hear that other people feel like it is beneficial to train my good arm.

 

[ronin0352]

it is, and there are also some studies, which I don't have the links to at the moment, that show benefits to the injured side from training the uninjured side. I'll try to dig them up and post later.

 

[mvan3030]

That actually makes sense, I don't see poeple walking around looking like lobsters.

 

[ronin0352]

Here it is, didn't take long to find at all.
http://***.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/101/5/1514

OK, that's filtered out. http://j a p.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/101/5/1514

copy & paste removing the spaces

 

[ASRBEAR]

I was kind of waiting for somene to tell me that I would become lopsided or some crap like that... I guess that is probably unlikely.

I just go crazy if I can't train, so I am happy to hear that other people feel like it is beneficial to train my good arm.

THAT IS CRAZY THAT YOU SAY THIS BECAUSE I BROKE MY HUMOROUS SEPERATED MY SHOULDER ON THE LEFT AND MY RIGHT SIDE IS INDEED STRONGER WHEN I BENCH MY RIGHT SIDE TAKES MOST OF THE WEIGHT IT DOES GET BETTER BUT THE BAD THING ABOUT A SHOULDER INJURIE IS THAT IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO HEAL AND IT CAN COME BACK OVER TIME. I HAVE BEEN REHABING FOR 3 YEARS NOW I ALSO HAVE A CERVICAL FUSION GIVE IT TIME AND CONTCT A DOCTOR IF IT GETS WORSE

 

[wildman1717]

Shoulders are a easy spot to injure. I always use rotator exercises and make sure I do the same amount of pulling exercises that I do on pushing exerecises. Alot of people do have imbalances because they go crazy on the bench presses. I injured my right tricep tendon at the elbow power lifting and left it alone and worked only the left tricep with dumbells. Once the physical theropy was over I lost very little in size on the right tricep.

 

[statisticool]

I have an injury to my shoulder, nothing serious, but it has been lingering. It is just a muscle issue and I was trying to ignore it however I figured I better rest it so that it can heal. I am still training and lifting but trying to avoid shoulder/chest exercises because that is when it hurts.

I decided, since it is my right shoulder that is hurt, that i will just do shoulder/chest exercises with my left arm. Does this seem like it is worth it?

How did you injure the shoulder?

 

[Barut]

Stat, he injured himself doing super slow HIT on machines. He said so in his log.

We need Asrbear banned. Thanks.

 

[ChaseT.]

THAT IS CRAZY THAT YOU SAY THIS BECAUSE I BROKE MY HUMOROUS SEPERATED MY SHOULDER ON THE LEFT AND MY RIGHT SIDE IS INDEED STRONGER WHEN I BENCH MY RIGHT SIDE TAKES MOST OF THE WEIGHT IT DOES GET BETTER BUT THE BAD THING ABOUT A SHOULDER INJURIE IS THAT IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO HEAL AND IT CAN COME BACK OVER TIME. I HAVE BEEN REHABING FOR 3 YEARS NOW I ALSO HAVE A CERVICAL FUSION GIVE IT TIME AND CONTCT A DOCTOR IF IT GETS WORSE