Anyone Had a Torn Shoulder Labrum?

[quote]heavythrower wrote:
PM tom63, he is a doctor of chiropractic, ART specialist, and competitive powerlifter who has suffered a torn labrum before. he might have some useful info. [/quote]

Thank you. I’ll message him.

You still need to figure out exactly what it is that is effecting you before treatment is considered. It could be a labrum tear, something going on with the biceps tendon, stretch/strain of the anterior joint capsule, or any combination. Skip the guess work and see a good shoulder specialist. It’s hard to fix something that you can’t identify.

My guess is a lax anterior capsule and the pain you feel during extension would be the humeral head migrating anterior superior hitting under your acromion process. Just a guess without ever seeing you…

[quote]blake b wrote:
I couldn’t find the injury forum so I’m posting this here.

Anyone torn their shoulder labrum? I hurt my shoulder and haven’t had an MRI and I’m not sure I need one now other than for peace of mind. The doc poked and prodded me and had me do some other things to “test” for rotator cuff strength and he said it was fine. He thinks it is just a strained muscle. I’ve never strained a delt but have strained both pecs and they bruised up. There is no bruising on/around my delt.

My question is: with a torn labrum, what does it feel like? Could you do things like a push up or dip? I can do pushups and dips. Pull ups make my shoulder feel unstable at the top. I’ve been doing the diesel crew’s shoulder rehab/prehab daily. The only thing really causing any pain is the dislocates. My shoulder will sometimes “catch” when doing a movement but it doesn’t hurt, just feels weird.

Anyone have any advice other than take more ibuprofen and wait it out?

Thanks[/quote]

I have a small tear in my right shoulder present on MRI, which you should get with contrast. Tears will show better with contrast btw. Don’t do dips, pullups or pushups.

Concentrate on scapular retraction work for the lats and back. I personally do a lot of board presses, at 2-5 board for chest/BP work.

ART can hep the soft tissue around the area, but can’t fix the tear of course. Rotator cuff work such as external rotations or a shoulder horn can help if the tear isn’t to extensive.

When I hurt, it’s not to painful and it feels like a pinching/achy thing in the anterior portion of the shoulder.