about injuries and soreness... - Exercise & Fitness Message Board

bigstudnothin · 04-01-2003, 04:02 PM

before i go on and on about this topic, is there a forum specifically for these kind of questions?

CanadianConvict · 04-02-2003, 12:38 AM

This is the only place to be. Well........

Ask away.

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bigstudnothin · 04-03-2003, 08:29 PM

sorry it took me a while to reply, but here goes...

i've had a lot of injuries withing the last few years, and i've noticed that none of these are really debilitating more of just a nusance in the weight room. but the biggest two injuries that affect me the most right now are my elbows and my left shoulder.

my left elbow pops a whole lot, even when i'm just doing pushups, but not to the point of pain, but itz been like that for a very long time, probably since i started lifting seriously a couple years ago(i wonder if that means anything). it'll pop kind of hard if i'm doing tri excercises like skull crushers, making it a little harder for me to bring the weight back up, but not significantly. but now itz my right elbow thats giving me actual pain when i do certain tri excercises like crushers, and french presses. it won't pop as much as my left but there's a bit of a sharp pain once i'm in the eccentric part of the movement(like bringing the wait down on french press). i don't know what to do, because i've laid off for months and even went to specialists for it that really had nothing new to say other than just lay off for a while, but nothing seems to change. i was hoping someone in here might have some insight on problems such as these.

as for my left shoulder, itz just been really really sore as of recently, and it really hurts when i do any type of shoulder excercises for it, and sometimes just stretching it out hurts. i don't ever remember doing anything specifically to cause this, that's whats funny. the pain sort of just showed up

anyway, if anyone has the patience to read this, and actually can offer some advice i'd be very thankful. i feel like i'm always going to have to workout with theses injuries if i want to work out at all.

Omskakas · 04-03-2003, 11:55 PM

My n00bie advice is to let your shoulders rest. Don't do any weight training with them for 2-3 weeks and after that start slowwwwwly. When I hurt a muscle I'm usually too eager to train it again and the pain will show up again and make things even worse.

Edit: To prevent future injuries check that you have proper form for shoulder excercises and don't do any particular excercise if it keeps injuring you. Also, I've heard that most people don't train their rotator cufs(sp?) which might be one reason for shoulder problems.

For elbow I can only say that try to find excercises that won't hurt you, if possible.

[This message has been edited by Omskakas (edited 04-04-2003).]

N2Deep · 04-04-2003, 08:32 AM

Your shoulder could be an injured rotator cuff. Search on Google for "rotator cuff exercises" to help build them up.
Your elbow may be just tendonitis. Check with a Dr. and see if an anti-inflammatory would help or not. Not sure why it pops but if it doesn't hurt then it can't be too bad.