Pectoral strain ?

[fozy]

Last friday I was doing bench and on one of my lighter sets I felt a pull on the outside of my chest near my armpit.

Now it is almost 4 days later and it is still bothering me. I have not worked chest or shoulders do to the injury. There is no bruising or swelling almost feels like tendonitious in the muscle if that makes sence.

Do you think I could have torn something?

What is the typical layoff time for a injury like this?

Week 4 of a cycle should I stop it and wait until I'm 100 percent again or work around it?

Input and comments are greatly appreciated. Go easy on my spelling I'm on a blackberry

Thanks in advance

Foz

[bag up pr bagpipe]

I'D say its def a tear depends on how bad try judging it on this

Grade 1 strains involve a few torn muscle or tendon fibers. Loss of strength is minimal, and recovery quite manageable.
Grade 2 strains involve more torn fibers, bruising, some loss of strength, and a longer rehab period
Grade 3 causes a lot of pain, swelling and bruising u may have hered a ripping sound when you did it in most cases grade 3 requires surgery

If you experience swelling, place an ice pack on the swollen area 15 minutes at a time. You don't even have to wait for the swelling to appear; if you can feel the muscle strain, start applying the ice pack. Anti-inflammatory will also help reduce swelling in the area and can help reduce pain.

recovery times

Grade 1 recovery takes a matter of days. You can return to training when the symptoms have disappeared.
Grade 2 recovery is a matter of weeks—approximately 2-6.
Grade 3 complete tears usually require surgery; full recovery takes months

[fozy]

no visible bruising ...some loss of strength do to the pain during pushing movement.

im thinking grade 1 possibly grade 2.....would you cut the cycle ? im only in week 4 of 10 and Im just starting to feal the kick.....

[bag up pr bagpipe]

I would give it a week then reevaluate. u can still hit legs, abs and cardio

[fozy]

Actually hit back and arms pretty pain free so far. Its just a wide grip push that hurts. Ill give it another week. This sucks

[fozy]

well

backed the gear down to 250......i ended up with some bruising above my bicep. Ortho thinks it is grade 2 but ordered a MRI. I go in on Tues to get the scan......this blowwwssssssssssss

[JT8561]

well

backed the gear down to 250......i ended up with some bruising above my bicep. Ortho thinks it is grade 2 but ordered a MRI. I go in on Tues to get the scan......this blowwwssssssssssss

hey what was the result of ur mri I got kinda the same thing going on. Felt a tear in my right armpit while benching wound up with brusing above my bicep and thats it so far.

[fozy]

partial tear of pectoralis major, also found some wear on my shoulder. Good news was it did not come from the bone. Its been almost a month and I still cant do a push up. I have started PT and am sticking to the rehab like glue

good luck with your injury, if you did in fact tear it, it is not a good time. It sounds like you did the bruising is the blood from the muscle tear. My arm eventually turned purple all around my upper bicep

[rtgrs]

I did the same type of thing it hurt really really bad on decline little on flat and not at all on incline.. i took like a week off working out 1 more from doing chest it bothered me for 6-8 months then went away