Strange shoulder pain

[Mr_Elan]

Hello!

I hurt my shoulder a few month back, after a workout I started to have moderate pain in the front of my right arm/shoulder. For a few days I felt a slight pain when lifting my right arm then I thought it went away.

I started again doing pullups, dips and push ups, only bodyweight exercises, and didn't feel any pain when doing these exercises. But I felt some pain when I wanted to do some shoulder stretches.

The only exercise which cause the pain is this one, when my right arm is in the bottom I feel the pain in the front of my right shoulder:

My flexibility is still the same, but I feel a moderate pain when doing this stretch, which I didn't have before I hurt my shoulder.

I went to my doctor, he did some tests by moving/pressing the arms in differents directions but any of these caused pain. I said to him that it was only the particular stretch above that caused the pain and just advised me to rest.

So I rested for two weeks not doing any exercise, my shoulder feels less stiff, but I'm still feeling the pain when doing the stretch.

Any idea what it can be? I thought maybe a teres major or subscapularis tendonitis?.. What can I do to improve the healing?

Thanks!

[GoldenEagle]

From Joshua Naterman himself:

 

 

Fix your shoulder pain Part 1

[Mr_Elan]

Thank you, I just watched the video, it looks good! I will do these exercises and see if it helps!

 

Still have a few questions though. Does anyone knows which muscle(s) are stretched when doing the stretch I showed above? I always do this stretch before training but without knowing which muscle(s) it stretches.

 

About tendonitis, I saw that doing some stretching could help the healing process. But if the stretch is a little painfull (I mean painfull because of the tendonitis, not inconfortable because of the stretch), can I still do it?

 

[GoldenEagle]

In addition to the tricep, you are more than likely stretching the following in some way or another. Supraspinatus, Subscapularis, Infraspinatus and Teres Minor. Joshua Naterman would be more specific than I.

 

It would be best if you stopped doing what cause pain and find another way to stretch out the shoulder muscles. Tendons take longer to heal than muscle does. Continued stretching just makes things worse for the slowly repairing tendon.

[Christoph Pahl]

If you are really right, and only this stretch is causing pain, then the solution is extremely simple: Don't do it.

[Mr_Elan]

Thank you for your answers!

It's the only stretch which caused the pain, but I noticed I have the same pain when doing strength exercises with my right arm which require a lot of scapula strength. For exemple the top part of one arm chinup (if I do isometric holds), I still have the same strength than before but feel a pain at the front top of my right arm/shoulder.

 

It looks like a teres major tendonitis or maybe subscapularis. But is at least a few weeks of total rest the only way of healing a tendonitis? I always read that doing light exercises could help the healing process.

 

EDIT: Actually doing just simple exercises like push-ups or regular pull-ups doesn't aggravate the pain. I'll just stick to it and avoid dips (which work shoulder a lot) and more advanced exercises for some time.