Stop the pain in your shoulder!

If you haven't suffered a shoulder injury yet, it's very likely that you know someone who's already been hit. And you wouldn't want to be in his situation. The shoulder joint is one of the most complex joints in the human body. The advantage that it can move in all directions is due to the lack of stability. Therefore, shoulders injuries or strains tend to exceed the incidence of others. Such an injury can put you out of training almost instantly.

The supraspinatus muscle is part of the so-called rotator cuff, which is an important element of the shoulder joint stability. Since the other three muscles wrap around the head of the shoulder bone (the long bone of the upper limb), the supraspinatus is clamped above its upper part, between the shoulder bone and the acromioclavicular joint. If you want to localize this tendon, put one hand behind your back and allow the other hand to touch the front of the shoulder joint. After chest training, this part may be extremely sensitive or painful.

Why is this part so easily overweight after over-training pecs? This exercise requires extraordinary force to stabilize the shoulder joint. Extremely mechanical demands are the most common cause of overloading the weak supraspinatus.

How to get rid of the pain?

Everyone will surely agree with me that prevention is better than treatment. If the overload is acute, it is worth having an orthopedic appointment to make sure of the diagnosis. Ice packs and rest are the first line of the fight against acute injury. Put ice packs on the front of the shoulder joint for 10 minutes after each workout, making sure that the shoulder is pushed backwards. As soon as the problem lasts more than two weeks, a medium deep massage can help you before you apply the ice. Such an approach can increase the amount of synovial fluid that lubricates the joint and tendons in the tendon sheaths.

The next step is stretching. Stretch the pectoral muscles, rotator cuff muscles and biceps several times a day (a minute or two twenty times a day). Stretching these muscles will also help you restore the range of motion in the shoulder joint and relieve the pain.