Originally Posted by
Scaldrew
Don't go to a doctor; save yourself the money and disillusion. They'll either say "have you tried not doing that?", which I don't entirely disagree with, but is overly simplistic as far as solutions go, or they'll shrug their shoulders and stare at you. Either way, not helpful.
Definitely a grip issue. From this angle, I'd have to say you're overdoing the "elbows up" at the beginning, but your shoulder girdle is contorting in all sorts of strange ways. Not only are your elbows too high up, you're not even keeping them tight. Try narrowing your grip and simply raising your chest with neutral wrists. If your chest moves up and your wrists remain neutral, you can be pretty sure of the fact that your elbows are neither dropping nor raising excessively. Try to feel for tight lats bunching up against your triceps. That's about as high as you want your elbows to be.
Other than that, you can try the "chinup protocol". Not a whole lot else is going to help. Pressing and benching will suck ass for a while until it stops sucking ass. Just fight your way through that. Don't massage or swallow bottles of pills or apply heat or cold or whatever. Everyone has already tried that and it does not work. It's chins all the way to Tipperary or it's "letting it go away". I wouldn't recommend the latter.
Once again for emphasis: elbows too high means shoulders in overextension. Anything in overextension is a no-no where heavy weight is concerned. There's a whole lot of information about this (Rip's videos, one is very very recent; Feigenbaum's article on squat grip; video on stretching for the low bar position by Horn; countless board posts like yours, not all of which ended up in the repetitive inquiries section).