My shoulders pop in certain positions when I lower them. This is not a normal joint pop where gas is released, its painful. I'll do lateral raises, on the way up there is no pain, on the way down there is one (never more) painful pop. If I hold dumbells while moving the pain is worse. The pop occurs between the shoulder and collarbone. I have normal strength and range of motion in my shoulder. I never had any injury to my shoulder, I think the pain just came on gradually. This pain has been bothering me for about 2 months.
I went to the doctor when the pain really started to bother me. 2 women came in and told me there is nothing wrong with my shoulder. I told them it was constantly bothering me with popping, they got a man to check it out. I raised my shoulder for him and he could hear the pop. He told me its just inflammation and I need to take 2400 mgs of ibuprofen every day. I did that for about 2 weeks, it helped a little but not much. I decided to quit that because of all the stomach/heart risks.
I went to my chiropractor for an adjustment and told him about the pain. He told me that it was not a normal joint pop, instead the muscle is rolling over and hitting the bone. He did some shoulder adjustment which I could feel, but it didn't really seem to help.
I found this article about tendon pain
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drryan13.htm Tendonitis and tendonosis were never even mentioned by any of the doctors I had seen. I tried exercising like this for 2 days but I think it aggravated the problem more. My problem seems more like tendonitis than tendonosis, but maybe its something completely different.
I started using liniment yesterday which seems to help. I think I am just gonna go back to staying off of it like I was before I read that article. I'm 18 btw.
I realize it is hard to diagnose over the internet.
Thoughts, Opinions?
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Originally Posted by skooh
