Shoulder Problems

[RichV]

hey, if anyone has had shoulder problems in the past please can you read this and try to help me out.

A few months ago my shoulders started becoming very problematic. Popping, grinding, clicking, rough movement, muscle shudder in my right shoulder and started getting slight pain when my shoulders clicked.

I went to see a chiropract and started treatment

This is a list of whats wrong:

1. muscle inbalances in my deltiods - anterior is much stronger than dexterior
2. i have weak lower traps (lower scapula isnt properly held to my back)
3. i have weak rotator cuff muscles

Chiropract said if i hadn't come to see him for treatment i would be looking at shoulder surgery 3 years down the line

Ive been told to do front raises and rotator cuff excersise to try and strengthen rotator cuff muscles and have been doing reverse flys to try and strengthen my rear delts and lower traps.

So over £100 worth of treatment over nearly 2 months and still same syntoms but no pain.

I dont have to money to keep on with chiropracy (£25 a time) and am lost for what to do.

Has anyone tried inside/out for similar problems? if so does it actually work?
should i resume stronglifts? or just do rotator cuff and reverse flys?

At the moment im sort of doing stronglifts with light weight plus the extra excersises.

Not training properly is really starting to get to me now and im getting frustrated,
any help is apreciated.

[eLvarouza]

I haven't had personal experience with shoulder issues like that but from what I understand many people have had great success solving their problems by overhead pressing with good form and doing chinups.

1. muscle inbalances in my deltiods - anterior is much stronger than dexterior
2. i have weak lower traps (lower scapula isnt properly held to my back)
3. i have weak rotator cuff muscles

I don't see why these would warrant surgery; they will be fixed with proper form on the basic barbell exercises recommended in this program.

It's worth checking out the entire Diesel Crew shoulder rehab series on youtube. Here's one exercise I've found particularly useful:



I have Inside/Out and it's good and has plenty of exercises for strengthening the lower traps and serratus anterior. You can find a lot of the exercises from it online in various places. I don't mean the copyrighted stuff from the DVD; I've seen clips around of other coaches demonstrating the same exercises. Search for scap push ups and scapular wall slides.