# Shoulder Issues part 2

**URL:** <https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/shoulder-issues-part-2/2798>\
**Category:** Medical Q&A \[Moderated\]\
**Created:** [July 29, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/shoulder-issues-part-2/2798 "2018-07-29T07:18:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![K-S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9a28c/32.png) [@K-S](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/K-S)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2018, 7:18am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/shoulder-issues-part-2/2798/1 "2018-07-29T07:18:30Z")

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My other thread (second page my only other post) got closed before I could respond. Not sure if you can merge these somehow or not.

Since I posted the thread a few days ago I got a print out of my Ultrasound. It essentially says a bunch of stuff in my shoulder is fine but my bicep tendon has fluid around it indicating bicep tendonosis.

I messed around with a bunch of pressing exercises like you recommended and I am happy I did. I discovered that any time my hands are close together (think overhead press with hands inside of shoulder width like 6 in apart) I get very little pain in my shoulder… Just a bit of what I would describe as tightness.

Any time my hands are wider apart or if my arm is flaired out even slightly in a single arm press I get pain through my shoulder. This also seems to apply to benching. If my hands are 4-6 inches apart I don’t get pain. Wider I do. Shortened ROM with a regular grip still causes pain with both press and bench.

I also noticed I have a really big strength discrepancy now between my two shoulders. As well it seems that there is a limit when it comes to adding weight on the painful side. 30 pound Arnold presses didn’t bother it to much if I pressed straight up almost inline with my shoulder and I could do a bunch of them with a slow tempo … but 35 wouldn’t move and caused pain.

Your reply to my other thread mentioned appropriate loading. Would that be taking the movements I can get away with doing with very little pain and progressing them in the 8 rep range? and if there is pain should I just work through it as long is it’s not a really sharp pain or obviously to much.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Austin\_Baraki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.barbellmedicine.com/austin_baraki/32/1095_2.png) [@Austin\_Baraki](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Austin_Baraki)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/shoulder-issues-part-2/2798/2 "2018-07-31T15:42:07Z")

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Yep, it sounds like you have found movements you can train productively with minimal symptoms (i.e., the narrower grip stuff). I would stick with that for now and work things back out (if necessary) over time.