Aggrivating shoulder injury...any ideas as to what it is?

Shoulder pain sucks. You've got to lay off bench/shoulder stuff long enough to know if you're injured or just hurt. Could take a month or more. If pain persists, go see an ortho. Good luck, been there.

rotator cuff tear

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ideas as to what it is? by brass2mouthIs it in the joint or more muscle?

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Hard to tell. I sit here now and it's hard to reproduce the pain. Last night it was pretty sore (5 on pain scale). When it is sore, there is a spot on the front of the shoulder I can press and reproduce it but right now, it's not tender. Last trip to the gym was Sunday and yes I did bench.

Now that I think more about it, a dip type movement tends to reproduce it more than anything else.

I tore my labrum and had four anchors placed to attach it back together... I had the same symptoms you are describing . I'm 3 weeks post op

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it's on the front of the shoulder,it might be the long head of the biceps, which is a common cause of shoulder pain, and removed from its groove in many shoulder surgeries.

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I dunno about OP, but mine occurs right around 1-2" above my armpit. It's mostly just a real deep burn. Not enough to make me go under the knife though.

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Update: went to ortho today. Did his manipulations and eval - felt it's just aggravated and inflamed - got an injection of roids and some prescription strength ibuprofen. Recheck in 6 wks and MRI if not improved.

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That's good to hear.

I had something similar happen a year ago in softball during three different at bats my left shoulder felt like it was popping, nothing too painful but more of a numbness feeling like it was going to sleep. I don't know what your symptoms are directly but from what I remember the head of my delts felt much weaker than normal when lifting my arms laterally in one specific spot.

I immediately took 5-7 off from the gym and when I got back focused on extremely light movements just to get muscles loose and did mostly band work. The hardest part is wanting to jump back to your normal weights as early as you can, I was able to do my normal exercises at say 30% max, 40% max, 50% max week by week and would only increase it if I didn't have any extended soreness 24-72 hours after.

The shoulder is one of the areas of the body that is open to injury and very hard to heal naturally. Try to stretch it every other day and there are excellent stretching exercises which I would focus on solely for a week if you can, the more you can get blood flowing in that area the better. Remember at the end of the day listen to your body if you need to take an extra day off do it, no use in trying to jump back into heavy weights too soon.