For the last 9 months I have been dealing with Shoulder & Brachialis pain in my left arm . The primary cause of it is wakeboarding and squatting (I was gripping the bar wrong and the weight was being supported by my arms/shoulder). The first 6 months it was primarily just a soreness that would quickly go away after the activity. Then 3 months ago it got to the point that after a set I could barely move my arm and it would hurt for a solid hour before going away almost completely. When I say hurt, I mean I couldn't foxus on anything but that pain. It's like a very strong but dull aching pain. It hurt during things like overhead press and benching, but only because it was already irritated to hell.
I went to my Ortho doctor. He took an xray and did some movement tests. He said I probably just have some tendinitis and unless there is an actual traumatic event, at my age all the shoulder tendons are too strong to break/rip. It doesn't help that 2 days after doing an irritating activity, the pain is mostly gone, so I had minimal symptoms.He gave me the wonderful solution of "don't do things that hurt", patted me on the back and sent me on my way.
I fixed the squatting issue and I took a month off wakeboarding. My shoulder has been fine with mostly no pain in the gym or elsewhere. Then I went wakeboarding last weekend and after my set my arm was in a little pain. After my second set it killed...... But as usua most the pain went away within an hour. My brachialis region was still sore to the touch days later though.
The only good that has come out of it is that I started learning to ride switch better (riding switch puts my right arm forward and I can have it take most the pull and let me back/left arm rest.)
Anyone ever have anything similar to this? I have no idea what to do at this point. I've had aches/pains/ in the past in other areas they usually get better and better and end up going away. It seems like I've been battling this for so long now though and it's not really getting better.
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