Please Scroll Down to See Forums Below I was doing military shoulder press with barbell. I was on 3rd set when I brought the weight down... just as the bar got to my chin there was a loud SNAP and pain shot from my left shoulder right across my collar bone all the way to my right shoulder. I was able to push the weight back up and rack it. I slowly reached up to my collar bone thinking I was going to feel bone sticking out of skin. There was pain more like "sore" pain from left shoulder rt across collar bone. I debated on calling it a day but figured I would try again. I lowered the weight and was able to do another set. Yes there was pain but no strength loss. I rested for 3 days then went back to gym today and while on incline bench press when I lowered the weight to chest once again my left shoulder and collar bone became very painful and even swelled up. no snap this time. Anyone have any Idea what this could be? I was guessing ligament over stretch or strain. anyone ever have this?
Shoulder "snap"
- Thread starter Pizzle27
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Hello! New member here,
Your experience is EXACTLY what happened to me (although my injury occured while lowering the weight during the incline bench press, instead of the military press); the snapping sensation in the right shoulder (close to the collar bone), followed by immediate numbness in the right side of my body going down my arm, and a deep, dull pain. I managed to restack the weight. I was wondering what the injury was that occured. Obviously, it's either a rotator cuff tear, or a labral tear. Thank You in Advance!!!!
P.S. - Sorry for reviving an old thread.
Your experience is EXACTLY what happened to me (although my injury occured while lowering the weight during the incline bench press, instead of the military press); the snapping sensation in the right shoulder (close to the collar bone), followed by immediate numbness in the right side of my body going down my arm, and a deep, dull pain. I managed to restack the weight. I was wondering what the injury was that occured. Obviously, it's either a rotator cuff tear, or a labral tear. Thank You in Advance!!!!
P.S. - Sorry for reviving an old thread.
its likely a tendon issue. and its very serious. i sustained this exact thing in my right forearm when i played football and someone landed on me wrong. something felt like a rubber band snapping and my hand went numb.. what happened was the tendon that is attached to the bone basically snapped off the bone.
the next thing you can expect is tendonitis to come in there as the body attempts to heal itself from the injury. at the time I was young and stupid so i took what the idiot doctor gave me which were cortico steroids.. and boy did they help! unfortunately now I know that it was the worst thing i could of done as those cortico's made my injury worse long term. to this day i still deal with periodic tendonitis in my forearm and i beleive its permanent damage that will never heal 100%.
so the best thing you can do is rest and stay the hell away from that movement for a while. DO NOT take anti-inflammatories and DO NOT take any cortico's that your idiot doctor attempts to give you.
the next thing you can expect is tendonitis to come in there as the body attempts to heal itself from the injury. at the time I was young and stupid so i took what the idiot doctor gave me which were cortico steroids.. and boy did they help! unfortunately now I know that it was the worst thing i could of done as those cortico's made my injury worse long term. to this day i still deal with periodic tendonitis in my forearm and i beleive its permanent damage that will never heal 100%.
so the best thing you can do is rest and stay the hell away from that movement for a while. DO NOT take anti-inflammatories and DO NOT take any cortico's that your idiot doctor attempts to give you.
EXACT same thing happened to me. I tore my labrum. They gave me a choice between surgery and PT. I chose the PT. hit it hard for 3 months did everything they told me to do and then some and I was back to the same weight in the gym within 8 months. I have problems with it every now and then (rainy days, sleep on it wrong, tweek it) but nothing a few days off from heavy weights and going back to my PT exercises wont fix.
Obv its your call but if you do have the tear I wouldnt opt for the surgery. My buddy went through with it and he's a year out of it and is still having problems with it and still cant put more than 185 up without issues.
Hopefully it's nothing, but when I read your post i got the chills and the feeling of that happening ran through my body all over again.
Obv its your call but if you do have the tear I wouldnt opt for the surgery. My buddy went through with it and he's a year out of it and is still having problems with it and still cant put more than 185 up without issues.
Hopefully it's nothing, but when I read your post i got the chills and the feeling of that happening ran through my body all over again.
you should NEVER hurt yourself weightlifting EVER EVER EVER unless its a freak accident like tripping over something or something goofy like that.
dont be lifting with shitty form and don't be lifting weight that is too much for you to handle. as tempting as it is to impress the hottie on the bench next to you i assure you she doesn't give a shit if you are benching 350 or 250. she doesn't know the difference nor does she care how strong you are. there is a difference between lifting with your ligaments and lifting with your muscles.
dont be lifting with shitty form and don't be lifting weight that is too much for you to handle. as tempting as it is to impress the hottie on the bench next to you i assure you she doesn't give a shit if you are benching 350 or 250. she doesn't know the difference nor does she care how strong you are. there is a difference between lifting with your ligaments and lifting with your muscles.
HEY..she might know the difference...but no, she doesn't care
Muscleaddict
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You need to STOP working shoulders and chest and get an x-ray. I fk'd my labrum doing military press 4 years ago and didn't take enough time off and it got worse. Now I still can't press what I used to before it happened because of scar tissue. Once you screw up your shoulder it usually comes back to haunt you. Rest it good and get to a doc asap.
NattyRipped
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I did this exact same thing two years ago but I was doing DB shoulder press and turned out I had torn my labrum :/ being a baseball player in college at the time this was pretty brutal haha hopefully some rest will help you out though. The docs told me I had shoulder impingement before that from weight lifting and that's what caused it
