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Yeah I know what you mean, it took 9 months of weekly, fortnightly then monthly physio to get my infraspinatus healed. I still need to be really careful or it comes back. A new physio gave me an exercise for my current injury which just flared up my infraspinatus a few weeks ago :(

Currently I have a back hyperextension that has been around for a month, and still quite painful.

Hang in there soldiers. My shoulder injury from nearly 2 years ago has made amazing improvements over the last 12 months. Still gives me very minor inflammation, but nothing distracting. And I thought the healing was as good as it would get after the first 6 months. I even smashed my old pre-injury PB on bench only a few months ago. Some shit just takes a long time to heal, but many of these injuries can be come back from provided good rest and rehabilitation, healing the injury around mobility movements etc.

4 specialists couldn't find anything visibly or physically wrong in spite of some pretty painful inflammation, so after 6 months I had resigned myself to it being a lifelong injury for me. Not so! The body can do amazing things overtime, things that science is yet to touch on :)

lol

Nah, out of the 4 specialists I saw, the osteopath made the most sense...he had the same opinion as the others, but a better explanation that I understood. He used a skeleton model to explain the joints and what my ultrasounds actually meant. Said there was nothing wrong with my mobility; the pain and feeling of something being wrong was nothing serious or else we would see it on ultrasound; it was something my body would have to heal over time (which is what osteos tend to subscribe to); I have, for lack of an actual medical term, clicky joint syndrome, where my joints are looser in their sockets than they should be and this likely caused my shoulder injury - means I have to be very careful with weights and technique. So on his advice I just kept at rehab, slowly introducing more mobility as I went along and slowly increasing the loads as well as icing it when it was inflamed, and these days I get hardly any, if any, inflammation after using the shoulder. Low reps don't bother it, but high reps can. I still don't have as much flexibility as my other arm, but as long as I can push weights I don't care.

Well for me I have hurt both shoulders on incline bench and press in the past.

One guy reckons my shoulders roll inwards and my back isnt engaging them and keeping them straight. He believes that is why my bench has always sucked.

What he doesn't know is why it hurts on the computer, sleeping, throwing a tennis ball and a number of other activities.

Bad posture is also to blame I think. Will see what physio thinks tomorrow

I have, for lack of an actual medical term, clicky joint syndrome, where my joints are looser in their sockets than they should be and this likely caused my shoulder injury - means I have to be very careful with weights and technique.

Hypermobility?

Nah doubt it, my joints aren't that flexible, they are just loose so to speak...could pop out or dislocate easy etc.

I have no doubts what my shoulder injury started out with was the supraspinatus getting caught between moving bones / joints.

good news about my physio, he thinks that it is all posture related and can be fixed pretty quick.

major thing that I have to do is change my desk lay out at home and work, sit up straighter, walk taller and a few simple back stretches.

also said i have scoliosis (if that is how it is spell it) which is why it hurts more on my right side rather then my left.

unfortunate thing is I have to lift less, especially anything above my head

Time to swap out the M for a B in your name now.

But seriously, good news that it's minor. I can second the posture comment as it made a lot of difference for me to stand up staight/walker taller/sit better etc. Oh and bent rows or something that involve shoulder girdle contraction (for me) as my shoulders were rolling forward from too much bench.

Anyone have tips to build some thickness in the upper pecs, primarily just below the collar bone? The rest of the pecs seem to be filling out nicely but the upper portion are making very slow progress in comparison. Currently do the following exercies for upper pecs:

- Incline dumbell (~30-degree angle)

- Incline barbell bench press (~30-degree angle)

- Incline flyes (sometimes cable, sometimes dumbells) (~30-degree angle)

Someone mentioned adjusting the bench angle to about 45-50 degrees, but I have always been under the pretense that the higher angle results in more deltoid activation?

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Anyone have tips to build some thickness in the upper pecs, primarily just below the collar bone? The rest of the pecs seem to be filling out nicely but the upper portion are making very slow progress in comparison. Currently do the following exercies for upper pecs:

- Incline dumbell (~30-degree angle)

- Incline barbell bench press (~30-degree angle)

- Incline flyes (sometimes cable, sometimes dumbells) (~30-degree angle)

Someone mentioned adjusting the bench angle to about 45-50 degrees, but I have always been under the pretense that the higher angle results in more deltoid activation?

genetics.

depending who you talk to will depend on the answer. Some people believe that there is a difference between the upper and lower pec, others claim its all the one pec

whatever u do just make sure you smash the chest area and eat enough food for it to recover

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