Shoulder Pain AC Joint/Impingement Not going away
Hi Coach,
I know you have spoken a few times about pain and I wondered if you may be able to throw me an idea before I end up with surgery. I have pretty bad pain in my shoulder predominantly I think over the AC joint. Had it xrayed, shoulder was normal. Got sent to physio and told to do band exercises for RC. Did for 6 weeks no pain improvement. Had MRI, doc said basically, ac joint shows sign of arthritis and minor inflamatio also bone growth at top which accounts for the bump. He thought this wasnt the real probem though. MRI also showed subacromial bursa was pretty inflamed. He diagnosed a shoulder impingement did a cortisone shot and sent me back to physio. Anther 6 weeks on and no improvement. Pretty much any movement of the arm hurts a bit and lifting heavy hurts somewhat at the time but irritates the injury the next day. I am trying to avoid surgery as that was touted as the next step though I am not sure exctly what that would entail. Am I candidate for the Starr rehab, though I have seen you say thats only for muscle belly issues? How would you go about rehabbing this? I am tempted to start again with an empty bar and just see how bad the pain gets as I build back up each workout. Sorry this was long and thanks if you made it this far. I can provide more detail from the MRI if needed.