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Originally Posted by The Yugoslavian
If your PT said to do zero pressing, then I guess do zero. Or you could do very light stuff. That's what I've been doing but my chiro encouraged me to do light stuff until I felt I could put more weight on it.
Also, your grip may be the issue but I know what was messing my shoulder up was not keeping my shoulders pinned down when pressing up - sometimes letting them rise before the lockout. Your shoulders on an OHP should be pushing down until the actual lockout at the very top of the press.
I'm not really sure, I'll have to investigate. My grip is definitely too wide though.
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Originally Posted by The Yugoslavian
I forget, have you been doing much regular SMR? Have you ever seen a chiro with biomechanical certification (or does your PT have that?).
I asked my doctor for a chiro referral and he gave me a PT one first; I'll see how this works out but there are some good ART practitioners in the Indy area that I may check out if this doesn't work.
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Originally Posted by The Yugoslavian
I'm going to recommend (shocking I know) spending some quality time investigating all the areas around that 'bad' shoulder. I hurt my right shoulder a few weeks ago and it took me 2 weeks to zero in on the most messed up spot. But once I did a week or so ago, my shoulder has been making much faster progress.
Before then I didn't actually realize I could SMR my infraspinatus while lying on my back - I always was careful to keep the lacrosse ball in between my spine and shoulder blade, but you can go to the other side of your shoulder blade, apply pressure, and see if there are any really messed up spots there.
Also, above your lat there is the teres minor and other rotator cuff stuff that has been my worse spot, it's kind of "in the armpit" and that was the area I never really discovered was causing the most issues for me for a couple of weeks. The way I hit it is to lay on my side with the lacrosse ball hitting the very outside part of my shoulder area, just above my cushy lat muscle and between my armpit and less cushy infraspinatus area.
Both those spots you noticed on your shoulder were spots the PT zeroed in on for me. Also, she thought my left bicep was a little tighter than my right, so I'm going to work on stretching that out too. She suggested I hold off on doing chinups to but I don't really go to failure or anything, I am just easing back into frequency work so I'll keep them up. I feel better after our session today, and hopefully we can get the flexibility issue worked out easily since there doesn't seem to be any underlying issue with the tissue or tendon.