You are ready for your favorite strength class. Are the first moves on the docket? The presses are overhead You say you have this. As soon as you lift your dumbbell, you feel a twinge in your shoulder.
Maria Borg, supervisor at UCHealth Sports Physical Therapy in Colorado, tells SELF that having shoulder pain is fairly common. There are a lot of reasons why this could happen.
What’s the bottom line? Strength training shouldn’t be stopped because of shoulder pain. There are a lot of small things you can do to make weight lifting more enjoyable.
A 20-minute total arms workout.
Everything you need to know about shoulder pain and weight lifting, as well as what you can do to keep it from happening, is ahead.
What causes shoulder pain while weight lifting?
There are a number of reasons you may experience shoulder pain. Instability and weakness in your shoulder and surrounding areas are two of the most common culprits.
Your shoulder is a ball and socket joint, and the muscles of your shoulder are surrounded by tendons, which attach the muscles to bone, and bursae, which are fluid-filled sacs. Hips and knees are the major joint junctions.
The shoulder joint is used a lot. Scantlebury says that the instability can lead to pain.
Weakness in the rotator cuff can be a factor in the injury of a baseball pitcher. The rotator cuff is a group of muscles that help keep the shoulder in its proper position. Your shoulder may be sitting in a less-than-ideal position if your muscles aren’t strong. Scantlebury says that moving your shoulder overhead can make you feel uncomfortable.
Borg says that the shoulder is a ball and socket joint that is supposed to roll and glide when you lift your arm away from your body. The rotator cuff muscles aren’t doing their job when they have rotator cuff syndrome The soft tissues of the rotator cuff will be pressed by the ball of the joint instead of the shoulder rolling and gliding. It can cause pain and uneasiness.
The stabilizing muscles on the backside of your shoulder help with proper positioning of the joint and can contribute to shoulder pain. If the stabilizers aren’t functioning well, you can have issues like shoulder impingement, which is when the top of your shoulder blade rubs against your rotator cuff, and tendinitis, which is when your tendons get inflammation or irritation.