Knife in my Rear Delt???

[Columbus]

Help me diagnose....please...

....I am severly depressed because of my shoulder. But now, I;m thinking it's more of a pulled muscle in my back. Help me diagnose.......it hurts like a friggn bitch to extend my arm all the way forward like a front raise or to do a bent over reverse fly.....chest flys? forget it. If you take your left hand and put it over your right shoulder then extened your middle finger as far down you back as possible, like right shoulder blade rear delt area, what is this? I can still deadlift, I can still to 2 handed seateded rows or tbar rows, but a one arm dbell row with that arm, forget it....any ideas?

[allsafe]

I have slipped my "rombo" (something more to it) over my ribs a few times, and actually just pissed it off and enflamed it several more. Usually it was doing that dam seated shoulder raise and cheating the last set. U may need to see a chiropractor or better yet a professional massage therapist.

[Doc.Sust]

ok, it is probably your rhomboid muscles with some lat involvement. ice the area affected, motrin 800mg, 3 times a day,dont do any movments that make it worse, rest and heal and maybe seek out a masage threapist or a chiro that does active release technique

[Columbus]

got a pic? I got deadlifts tonight, hoping Ill be ok......maybe take a week off from heavy and inc. more reps?

[cj1capp]

doses this link show the right area
http://www.realbodywork.com/learn/shoulder/rhomboid.htm

[Columbus]

BINGO....its preventing me from doing ANY chest or delt movement....its horrible I can do deads and rows, but on my back or on a bench is miserable! I tried some cable crosses today ligt and it was ok.....I am very very nervous. I dont want a setback like this but I want to make sure its just a muscle strain and not something serious....DOc......do you know what I am talking about? That is the exact region......putting hand pressure opn that spot is horrendous......thoughts? it's been 10 days with a deep tissue massage sat...

[allsafe]

It will need to relax and regain its elasticity before you strain it again or it will just stay inflamed and restrictive. Ultimately you could damage the muscle tearing or weaking.

The Doc & I are like minded on your diagnosis and therapy. Definitely follow the Doc's instructions. Ice am waking, afternoon, an hour or two before you retire.

Massage, massage, massage. Stretch, stretch, strecth.
Rest and rehabilitate. I was told 6 weeks on my last rhombo issue. It took me just under 4 weeks while using hgh ed 3.5iu. I'm 40 with a high bf, btw.

Focus on your core and lower body. Keep in mind what we all know and say, if you push it now and make it worse the time inrecovery will increase. Good luck.

[Columbus]

Can you help me devise a routine? I need to skip chest (except for cable flys) and delts......yesterday was quads, today I will hit hammstrings....will I be ok gaining mass without the big chest and delt movements?

[number twelve]

bro i have the same exact injury, i took a bad hit in football and was messed up ever since... i do the following exercises everytime i work out just to get loose and keep the blood flowing. this routine works for me and if i dont do it for a few days, the pain comes back, as bad as ever. the pain takes the breath out of me, i know what your feeling.

first i do 3 sets of rotator cuff exercises, light weight, 10-15 reps each set.
then i do 2 supersets (really light weight, really strict, just focus on squeezing, if you do it right, youll feel a good-burning sensation inbetween your shoulder blades after a few reps).dont even change the weight as you progress through the superset. it is as follows: wide grip pulldowns for 10, behind the neck pulldowns for 8, underhand grip for 8, and then standing in front of the lat pulldown machine, do another 8 wide grip pulls. standing seems to hit it a little differant.
i also do a lot of doorway stretches and about 100 pushups before i even go to the gym.
just my .02, i hope it is some help!

[number twelve]

oh btw, this is the only thing that works for me besides taking alleve or whatever...chiropractors made it feel better for 20 mins, and then i would tighten up again as soon as i left. and dr's did nothing

[Columbus]

I still have it......today I incline 75lb dbell for a good couple which I was extremely proud of.....it's the intitial jump that I need assistance with.....flat hurts, last week on inclines I couldnt bench the bar wo pain.....