I though this topic might be interesting and maybe provide some heads up data for future reference.

Here's a good one. I re-injured my right shoulder the other day working cable CURLS. Yes, you read that right. I have been doing cable curls from a low pulley sitting on my Smith bar facing into the machine which provides tension away from the body to the front. In other words the cable is at about a 45 degree angle away from me which is a great constant tension exercise.

On rep #9 I cranked it up hard and POP! A non excruciating, but distinct painful popping sensation in my right shoulder in the cuff exactly where I hurt it a couple years ago.

Of all the idiotic ways to hurt yourself who would think somebody would injure a shoulder doing curls. Clearly it was the angled tension that pulled it down and forward. I do these in a sort of sweeping cheating ROM sometimes bring the bar up to my forehead wihch is what I was doing this time.

I can't be the only person who has hurt themselves in highly unlikely ways like this. Now I'm nursing the damn thing all over again and I had it back to about 90% before this happened. SHIT!

That blows man.

Being injured sucks, and especially if you were 90% rehab'd...

I'm sure I've hurt myself in some stupid ways, but I can't remember off the top of my head - oh yea, pulled my lower back once moving a bench - yes, not actually using the bench, just moving it...lol...

What I find ridiculous are the injuries sustained when you feel you are doing everything right. Granted, working out by yourself doesn't leave any objectivity here...

I've been trying to heal a shoulder injury for eight or nine months now. There was no "event" to speak of, this just developed over time. This pain was caused by military presses, face pulls, bench press, regular and reverse curls and a multitude of other exercises. X-rays revealed no abnormalities and the ortho recommended physical rehab, which did didly-squat. I've been to the diesel crew site many times and incorporated their shoulder rehab program into what a physical therapist gave me.

Truth be told, I tried over the last two days the muscle snatch you posted from dieselcrew, which I overlooked. I'm hoping beyond hope I'm not jumping to conclusions, but I believe I've noted a remarkable difference in only two days of that protocol. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Thanks for posting that, Tiribulus. If that fixes my shoulder, I owe you.

I tweaked a nerve in my neck sleeping. :/

I hate it when I reach for a seatbelt in my car, or turn to get out of my car, and something snaps in my shoulder or back. It usually fixes itself in less than a week when this happens, but I makes you wonder when you spend your days lifting hundreds of pounds how these injuries can occur when no lifting is involved. Angles are right--that is the issue.

Member NJ-Polska sent me this one:

My buddy dropped a 120 pound DB on his foot the other day and broke his pinky toe. By far, one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen.

Mine was pretty frustrating... Just happened last Thursday.

I strained/pulled/highly aggravated the hell out of somewhere near my mid/lower traps on my last rep of my last set of my last exercise of the day - Hammer Strength Shrugs.

Feels like it could be the infraspinatus / teres area.

Guess this doesn't count as a "stupid" way to get injured (though my original attempts at fixing the issue were certainly stupid), and it's really not an uncommon issue (and not a true injury), but:


As mentioned in my previous post, I had some posterior tightness issues (shoulder capsule) which flared up esp. on DB benching... Got so bad I just couldn't do it anymore. I asked in a thread on here somewhere, and BBB chimed in with some ideas if I remember right.
Anyway, as mentioned before, none of the regular rehab/prehab moves helped at all... External rotation-based ones and face pulls and any kind of deep pressing motion etc made it worse until it would stay with me for hours.


So, one day I ended up wanting to bring up my (sumo) deadlift and decided to drop back squats for a time so I could focus on the sumo pulls more (they bring my squat up along anyway now that I've narrowed my stance some in both lifts).

I had had some shoulder discomfort when back squatting with my elbows nearly under the bar as usually done in powerlifting, but when I widened my grip and just accepted the slight loss in strength from that, the pain became almost non-noticeable... Usually when re-racking the bar, there was a slight flare-up and that was it.
Stupid as I am, I just accepted it (despite constantly telling other people never to accept any kind of "wrong" pain when training as "part of the game") then and never thought about it again.

Didn't make the connection until the issue practically disappeared over the course of 2 weeks... Went to do some lighter back squats with 60-70 percent of my max again just to test the theory, and sure enough, after a few sessions the pain began to come back.

Now, my shoulders mobility/ROM is actually pretty good from years of doing the broomstick stretch and moving my hands closer and closer together as well as from other stretches... I also didn't have those shoulder problems from squatting back when I was smaller... High-bar squatting helps some, but doesn't fix the issue... I guess esp. when squatting low-bar, the increase in upper back thickness that I've had coupled with the way you set up for a low-bar squat just caused the distance between bar and shoulder joint to increase so much that prolonged stabilizing of the bar in that position puts so much stress in the area that it ends up becoming tight and impinging stuff or so...

Right now, I'm back-squatting only very in-frequently and for very low reps with a higher bar position and trying to bring my pec minor/pec strength up (as I'm a tricep and shoulder -dominant presser and never cared much for the chest... No nice chest equipment available in years over here and I just hate BB-style benching... Plus I can use so much more weight with a closer grip... And dips have always felt awkward on the shoulders... Yeah :) I've focused so much on posterior strength and size, I figure strengthening the muscles which pull the shoulder forward might help some...
Ideas?


Thanks to BBB again for posting his comments on the issue back when I first asked about it.

When I was in college in the early 90's, McDonalds had a special where you could get cheeseburgers for like 30 cents each, so of course I made the most of this. Somehow, I had left a couple in the backseat of my car, and one afternoon, was driving home from class and felt a bit hungry. Noticing a few burgers in the backseat from the previous weekend, and figuring that they were probably okay from the freezing Albany winter we were experiencing, I reached my right arm back while keeping my left on the steering wheel. Well, I may never know exactly what happened, by I felt something give way in my right shoulder, and actually ended up being unable to train for several weeks.

(oh yeah, I did eat the cheeseburger and got a stomachache to go with the bum shoulder -lol)

S

"The key is to put it all in your groin and your back. Take your legs totally out of the equation. Lift with your lower back in a jerking, twisting motion."

Sumo deadlifting with a way-too-narrow grip... I felt an intense pain in my upper chest near the neck. Turns out I had dislocated my clavicle from the sternum. The bad thing is, no physician would ever try to put it back in place. I've got a partially dislocated S-C joint for the rest of my life I guess...thanks to not being smart (but thats usually the case).

This wasn't in the gym, but...when we were first married She Say and I were fans of fucking in the shower...one day I got the bright idea to pick her up and lower her onto me...on the first 'bounce' my feet slipped on the wet shower floor and I ended up flat on my back...luckily She Say grabbed the curtain rod and stabilized herself or I fear my wang may have been severaly damaged...

In highschool, I once had a conversation with my youth pastor during the previews before Mission Impossible 3 about his friend that snapped a tendon in his dick doing the exact thing Sen Say just mentioned with the woman being on top. That was interesting.

Close call story but it would have ended ugly, injury or worse. I work out for the most part at home in my garage. I'm benching in the power rack. An unknown number of days before this session, I was apparently doing dips in the power rack. I do this by taking the safety bars and laying them across the top of the rack (front to back); I turn the pin/hook toward the outside and make sure to keep pressure in that diretion to keep the bars from sliding. With a bit of discipline and caution, it is a perfectly suitable alternative to a dip stand :) Fast foward to my benching session. I'm going thru a set, I rack the weight and I must have shaken one of the safety bars above (about 4 feet above) and this sucker is heading for my face. I'd like to tell you I displayed some ninja-like reaction and avoided the falling bar, but I was merely lucky and the bar did miss by a few inches - just luck. I'd guess the bar weighs around 7-10 lbs? Falling from 4 feet overhead onto your face or head would surely "leave a mark", if not worse. From that day forward, I've never forgotten to take the bars down from the top of the rack LOL. Scary what you can do to yourself working out at home.