I plan on trying to do an actual consultation soon but wanted to see if I could get any advice here first.
I’ve had some severe shoulder pain for close to 1 year now, it started about 2 days after I had gone for a max bench. I didnt feel any sudden pain during the lift or even the following day. Since then it has been all over the place pain wise. There have been times were I have not been able to bench the bar without a shooting pain. Few days later I could go up to 185-225 before it hurt. I’ve tried all different variants and all have felt just as bad. It act up in my day to day life also. Reaching up to grab a glass or grabbing something out of the fridge can be anywhere from uncomfortable to making me drop it in pain. So far I’ve seen a few different PTs but have not seen much improvement. First 1 insisted on just doing cortisone shots after doing an ultrasound saying that its inflamed. The other PTs have focused on shoulder health and have me doing PRF, I think that’s what it’s called, basically pulling cables different directions to target different shoulder muscles. Also on the days where the pain is less I notice constant popping and grinding feeling on my collar bone and shoulders blade.
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Is there any advice on how to go about working out with this issue? I’ve been working to tolerance but with how much it fluctuates it hasn’t seemed to help.
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should I keep pressing my doctores to actually order some test like an MRI to hopefully see what the actual issues is? A year of spitballing ideas clearly hasn’t worked.
thank you for any responses.