Hi everyone, I really hope someone has had a similar experience, as my doctor seems a little lost.
Around the same time as I started doing bench press to improve my upper body strength for front crawl, I experiences pain in my shoulder which was quite severe. After taking 2-3 weeks off the pain has gone away.
However, I now find severe clicking sounds in my shoulder, especially when moving it in a circle. Most disturbing is when making the catch with a high elbow position, subtle pain and clicking resonates in my shoulder and after only 1000m my shoulders feel as though they have taken on 5000m.
Thank You!
I don't know if you have any history of shoulder problems, but if you do, bench pressing is NOT a good activity. Some clicking is normal -- it's scar tissue. But you may need to back off and do some rotator cuff and scapular stabilizing exercises. We discussed shoulder issues on a recent thread, forums.usms.org/showthread.php. That thread references many other threads dealing with the causation and treatment of shoulder injuries. If the pain continues, it may be tendonitis. See a doc -- preferably one that knows something about swimming. Good luck!
I don't know if you have any history of shoulder problems, but if you do, bench pressing is NOT a good activity. Some clicking is normal -- it's scar tissue. But you may need to back off and do some rotator cuff and scapular stabilizing exercises. We discussed shoulder issues on a recent thread, forums.usms.org/showthread.php. That thread references many other threads dealing with the causation and treatment of shoulder injuries. If the pain continues, it may be tendonitis. See a doc -- preferably one that knows something about swimming. Good luck!
