Originally Posted by
AdamK
Hi,
A couple of weeks ago my left shoulder started to ache at the AC joint after a workout. I started to take
ibuprofen as advised here (800 mg x 4/day for 5 days) than started the Starr rehab protocol for shoulder injuries. The Starr Rehab method is appropriate for muscle belly tears. It is not appropriate for hardly any other orthopaedic concerns.
Surprisingly I do not feel any pain during benches but presses do irritate the injury especially during the dynamic
start (have to employ a floating start having relatively long forearms) and up to the point where the bar reaches
the nose. This is a bit strange to me because reading through the forum people with this kind of injury usually tend
to have pain during benches and presses are claimed to be safe and painless. If most people have pain during bench pressing, what would we assume about most people? If most people have no pain during press, but you have pain in the press, what should we assume about you? There is nothing inherently dangerous about bench or overhead press. Both are incredibly safe, and most people perform both exercises with no pain. This does not mean that there is no risk at all as fast as safety or that both lifts cannot cause pain.
Because the irritation during presses the pain intensifies after the workout but after a couple of hours the pain
tones down and I can only feel a bit of it occasionally. At the moment I am to switch to pin presses starting just
above the point pain starts and continue training that way until the pain ceases to be. What is your opinion? I don't like this course of action at all. Minor pain during the workout, decreasing to a small amount of occasional discomfort should not be an indication to start modifying your training to partial reps. How will you ever adapt to the full ROM exercise if at the first sign of trouble, you bail on the main lift?
Shall I stick to presses even with the pain or is pin press a good alternative?
Short bio:
35 years old, 3 years under the bar,
Squat: 150 kg x 5 x 3
Press: 53 kg x 5 x 3
Bench: 65 kg x 5 x 3
Deadlift: 155 kg x 5
Power clean: 67.5 x 3 x 5