I realize you're all retarded and Veeky Forums is the worst possible place to ask for medical advice outside of youtube, but maybe some of you have experienced this. When I do lateral raises, my left shoulder pops and clicks and feels like it's grinding a little. It doesn't hurt much, but it worries me. And the other one doesn't do it. Whenever I ask a doctor about it, they just fucking brush it off saying it's not important and make me have to rely on google searches (story of nearly every doctor visit I've ever had, honestly).
Shoulder clicks and pops during deltoid exercises
Justin Perry
Isaac Rodriguez
So does it or doesn't it fucking hurt? It's normal to have a little clicking in the shoulder -- the sound doesn't indicate anything in particular. If it hurts, go to your doctor to get a referral to a specialist.
Brayden Nelson
It hurts a tiny bit. Like maybe a 1. More kind of a hypochondriac response. It's a bit uncomfortable, but not like "Ouch".
>It's normal to have a little clicking in the shoulder
Why just the one? I should mention the other shoulder is lower and always has been as long as I can remember and seems twisted to the front a bit (if I hold it up a bit and twist it backwards slightly, it is even with the left).
Samuel Clark
internally rotated shoulder?
Oliver Wood
go to a chiropractor. most doctors nowadays are quacks and don't know anything.
Tyler Nguyen
i get this too, not painful just uncomfortable, the main reason i got high volume low weight on shoulders
Easton Anderson
Humans are not perfectly symmetrical. It's easy to develop impingement in one shoulder and not the other just from daily activities (e.g. dominate vs non-dominate side).
Hudson Roberts
>go to a chiropractor
I think you mean physical therapist
Easton Wood
more testing needed try fullyflexingoit whenmovement occurs, try doing it slowly, do different movements that get u too feel the full humeral head, thats the bone at the top of your are that connects to the shoulder, if it still hurts when ur doing it you just might have torn ur rotator cuff a tad and ur just tearing it while its recovering causeing the scar tissue to neevr fully "fall off" thus creating said clicking ur feeling
Eli Smith
Chiropractors LUL
Dylan Reed
>most doctors nowadays are quacks and don't know anything.
They know about drugs! But, yeah, outside of that, you're right. I had one tell me that dairy and eggs weren't complete protein. Like what the fuck? That's literally middle school fucking tier knowledge.
>fullyflexingoit whenmovement
Lol wtf
>you just might have torn ur rotator cuff a tad and ur just tearing it while its recovering causeing the scar tissue to neevr fully "fall off" thus creating said clicking ur feeling
Well it's been doing this for as long as I can remember and I've only recently gotten into weightlifting, so I don't know if that's the case.
Colton Hall
It could be from a muscle imbalance. Most guys have stronger front delts than rear delts, causing pain like this. I had it, and it got real bad, until I started hitting my rear delts with a lot of volume 2-3 times a week.
Logan Clark
This seems like a good thread to ask this:
I think that my shoulder is double-jointed. Is there anything specific I should be doing to avoid injuries? I was doing alternating incline DB bench press today and my shoulder was jumping joint positions, and even though it didn't hurt it worried me a little
Xavier Rogers
Your shoulder isn't double jointed. It's dislocated.
Ryan Hernandez
Any problems with range of motion at all? If you swing both arms around backwards and forwards and your problem shoulder can do everything your good shoulder can do it's probably not a rotator cuff injury.
You probably have bursitis. In which case your shoulder bursa and tendon are inflamed which means when they slide over each other they cause uncomfortable clicks. If this is the case, go to a physio asap so he can give you some good exercises to strengthen your shoulder. It's not serious but be very careful doing shoulder exercises because you don't want it to get any worse.
t. someone who had the same thing and got fucked around by doctors for months before they figured out what it was
Jayden Evans
No. It's fine otherwise. Wouldn't I see some swelling if it were bursitis?
>Strengthen your shoulder without doing shoulder exercises
Lolwut? There aren't that many muscles involved in shoulder movement. I can't even imagine what could strengthen the shoulder without engaging delts.
Parker Gray
Also, would bursitis last a decade or more? Because I'm pretty sure it's been this way for a LONG time without complications.
Julian Adams
It's your supraspinatus, do full cup raises and shrugs, and chest openers for stretching.
Sebastian Richardson
I didn't see any swelling when I had it.
You can still train shoulders, but I wouldn't recommend doing it with the weight you're used to. I'm pretty sure the cause of bursitis is a muscle imbalance of some form in the delts, but maybe with stabliser muscles because I used to train all front, lateral and rear delts. The shoulder exercises that a physio would recommend would be like basic rotator cuff exercises with a dumbbell or a cable/band.
If it's been that same level of intensity for a decade then probably not. In my case it was pretty painful for the first two weeks I had it, then after that it was manageable but frustrating. It got in the way of gym because I didn't think it was getting any better.
Jason Myers
>All the bad advice in this thread
Let me break it down for you.
Clicking joints are signs of mobility issues. You have shoulder impingement which is preventing your shoulder from achieving its proper range of motion. Clicking joints are not normal or healthy. Ignore the people in this thread who say otherwise.
This can be caused by a number of things. Poor posture. Weak rotator cuff muscles. Damaged joint capsule. Inflamed tendons. Usually a mix of a few. Continuing to lift with shoulder impingement (or impingement of any kind really) will lead to worse problems down the road. Don't become another bench casualty.
What you need to do is work on the mobility of your shoulder and everything connected to it (lats, scapula, etc). If you've never done this stuff before, MobilityWOD videos are a great place to start.
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Thomas Collins
It's not really painful. Just more worrying. I mean it's a little uncomfortable WHEN it clicks, but not otherwise.
>You have shoulder impingement which is preventing your shoulder from achieving its proper range of motion
I'm not sure of that. I've always been extremely flexible. And now that I think of it, I think my shoulder used to pop even back in elementary school when we did those arm circle stretches.
Aiden Bennett
Flexibility is the ability of your muscles to stretch. Mobility is the ability of your joints to achieve full and proper range of motion.
Clicking joints is a sign of impingement and improper mobility. Having poor mobility for a long time doesn't mean anything.
Also kids get mobility issues all the time from the growth process. Your childhood clicking could be completely different from adulthood clicking.
Christian Hernandez
Had this exact problem inmediately stop all pushing movements and do lots of pulling movements for the next month or so that will fix you serious. Rows, pullups and rear delt work.
Luis Williams
He would know if it was dislocated. It hurts like hell.
Source: Dislocated elbow joint playing football, seen other people dislocate shoulders. Every single one of us was in major pain