Good morning Dr. Ray and Dr. Miles,
30 years old, male, been in BBM Group Programming for 7 months now.
I’ve had some recent upper back pain (just below left scapula and just to the right of the left scapula next to the spine, left side only). I noticed this feeling last week, I did not have any sort of injury event that I recall to that area. I had to lift 4 days in a row last week as we were traveling. I played golf on Friday, kayaked Saturday and then came home Sunday. I did not have any sort of pain during that time. The pain started earlier this week on Monday, but it was more of a discomfort than a pain but more so than last week. I squatted a PR, tied PR on Press, and had a bench supplement that felt OK. Tuesday I dead lifted at a PR, and then had excruciating pain trying to bench. I put on maybe 85%(205 lbs) of my 1@8 max and hit it but it hurt. I then just tried to hit 135 for my back offs and it was OK, but getting on and off the bench hurt so bad that I called it. I did my press supplement with little to no pain. Since then (Tuesday to now Saturday) I’ve had the lingering pain. It actually worsened since yesterday and now my left side of my chest has a similar pain on the exact opposite side of the pain from the back (draw a line straight through my body from one side to the other). Side note, I check heart attack symptoms and do not believe I am having/had one. The pain on the chest only comes when I move or bend that side, if I am at rest I do not have any. The back pain is fairly persistent. If I am sitting or rest, it’s not really there but if I squeeze my back (like when I am benching) I notice it. I read a thread and articles that Austin had posted about muscle tightness and I know that is not really a thing but that is what it feels like, just “tight”. I went out this morning to bench the bar to try it and the pain was there. Again it hurt getting off the bench. None of the other lifts seem to effect the pain but the pain is noticeable when doing normal things like bending over to pick up something.
Hope that is enough information, happy to provide more if needed.
Thank you so much for your time, appreciate what you guys do.