re: Ah the shoulder injury. Need some advice

Ah the Arnold Press..

Just today I was telling a coworker that I didn’t do these because of the rotation of the shoulder joint while lifting weight overhead. Too risky for injury.

As the previous poster stated, the shoulder is a complicated joint. There’s a long list of potential problems/injuries.

Light weight (very light for shoulder specific), avoid overhead pressing, do exercises specific for the rotator cuff. If any exercise/movement causes pain, immediately stop. Anti-inflammatory meds (oral or topical) could help.

If you go the steroid route, consider oral or muscular injection before joint injection. With every steroid injected directly into the joint, you start to degrade the very joint you’re trying to “heal”.