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Originally Posted by
Scaldrew
Pressing instead of benching should be fine until you can bench again, at which point you simply repeat the last bench workout. Really, though, the pain shouldn't be terrible or even present if you're no longer squatting low bar. Low bar is the optimal choice, but second best is still good. At least until you find out exactly what's what. Continuing to squat with severe pain will only make it worse. I wouldn't recommend front squatting really. Not a valuable substitute, especially for this short a timespan.
As to specific advice, I found that merely correcting technique worked best. I say that knowing how hard and long a process this can truly be. None of the rolling or massaging or heating or cooling or pillsing or strapping or wrapping or praying or begging helped me one bit. Not at all. It sucks to not have a person there to tell you all about it, but if I can fix it on my own, gosh darn it, so can you. I was stubborn enough never to make the switch to high bar but for a few workouts and stubborn enough to say I don't regret it now. But technique was always a priority. I found out near the very end that my grip was a full hand width too narrow where before I wasn't in any pain at all. So this one and the placement of the bar on the back are going to be big big factors. Bracing and gripping and wrist and blabla are really more details, I find. Can be causes, but mostly aren't; at least not to this degree. Let's not rule them out, though.