I was doing military presses last night and I may have pinched a nerve. It only hurts when I put it in a certain position. Besides the usual, don't do that if it hurts, what ways are there to correct this?
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tee said:Make sure you didn't injure your rotator cuff. If its a nerve, I would say rest & relaxation. w/ a nice massage from the ol lady
oracle said:You should be able to tell in a few days. If it's a nerve it should go away pretty quick if it's your rotator cuff it will linger for awhile. In that case you might want to see the doctor on it to see if it's minor or not.
oracle said:doesn't sound like a rotator cuff injury. If it was you wouldn't really be able to have that good a motion. You probably just stressed out some nerves in your shoulder. If it doesn't hurt that bad then do some light movements with it. I would stay away from lateral raises for a week or so. It should be fine in a few days, if while your doing an excercise of any kind and it bothers you obviously back off of that with the weight till it's comfortable.
DragonRider said:Put your hand down at your side and raise it straight out to the side until your arm is parallel to the floor. If there is pain in that position it could be a rotator cuff injury. Were you doing military presses in front of your face or behind the neck presses? Also, what kind of warmups are you doing?
Going from dumbells to the smith machine changes the point of focus on the muscle. If you are going to do smith's for the main excercise, use the smith machine to do your warm up too. The first warm up should be the empty bar. I think you will have less problems that way. If you want to incorporate dumbells, then switch up weekly where smith's are the main excercise for shoulders one week then dumbells for the main workout the next.recess said:I found some info on the side raise. No pain - also with someone applying pressure there was very little. One of the teachers is also a massage therapist. She could feel a tendon that was tight. You could actually feel a knot on the tendon in the front part of the shoulder. Applied some heat and did a light workout on it this eve. Feels much better. Fixing to put the heat back on it and call it a night. Thanks guys.
I always do shoulder press to the front - never behind my head - warm up with dumbells and go to the Smith.