Shoulder Tendonitis – Will my shoulder ever be the same?
About 5 months ago, I worked out during the day and did deadlifts and pullups. Unfortunately, I did not stretch and warmup all that much. However, I did not experience any pain during the workout, it went well. Thing is, that night is when I felt discomfort in my shoulder. I laid off it for a few weeks, then continued my workouts. Once I resumed my workout, the discomfort came back, so I stopped again. Rested for a month, then started working out again. Same thing happened. The discomfort came back.
Now, it’s been a month since I lifted weights (again). I have no pain in my shoulder within virtually all ranges of movement. However, when I lay on the right side of my body (left shoulder is the issue) and grab a weight with my left hand and pull up with it, I experience discomfort. In this case, it’s me laying in bed on my right hip grabbing a 4-5 pound tempurpedic body pillow. I’ve been icing it, taking fish oil, and doing some light rotator cuff exercises.
I have no health insurance, and am really right for cash. I can not afford to see a doctor. I lost my job early this year.
My body has weathered away. I’m going into a major state of depression. I’m 26 years old, and have always trained hard. I continue with aerobics and leg exercises, but I still look frail. I need to train my upper body.
What should I do? Will my shoulder ever be the same? I went to a physical therapist for one session and he said you should be good to go in 3-4 weeks. This was a month ago. I’ve taken care of the shoulder since then and it’s gotten better. But again, there seems to be one angle of movement when coupled with weight that creates discomfort. I’m worried that lifting weights (light of course to start) will exasberate the shoulder and send me back to square one. This is terrible…
Yeah, if it was really a rotator cuff strain…anticipate 6-12 months for full recovery. Your exercise should produce your familiar symptom with some discomfort when you do it, but should subside shortly after (within 5-10 minutes). You might need to actually increase the frequency of the exercise (usually raising the arm from the side as you describe), starting with 10-15 repetitions 3x a day and progressing to 6-7 times a day.
…just start with following the guideline of it’s OK to produce a little bit of your familiar symptom during exercise (in fact, this is one of the times is actually required) but it should subside shortly after and there should never be pain at rest. Should this not work, you really need to get into PT again for a revision of the home program with a follow up every 2 weeks.
Unless you have major structural damage (but it doesn’t sound like it), rest will only make this problem perpetuate. Then tendon needs to be remodeled and that can only occur with loading it under controlled circumstances (assuming your diagnosis is correct).
…expect 8-12 weeks for improvement but 6months to a year for full recovery. Tendons are really slow healers.
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