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Old 12-21-2007, 09:33 AM
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I had to read up on exactly what a Slap Tear is and found some basic info here: http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/gene...der/a/slap.htm

Now it seems that you were able to work your way through this since you got diagnosed long after you sustained the injury but the pain has finally become too much. My advice is to schedule a meeting with a sports therapist and see what their input is. A good sports therapist deals with professional athletes and highly active people such as bodybuilders so they are able to give you a better idea of what you can and cannot do.

Also I think it would be worth it just to see them and get some exercises to help relieve the stress/pain in the area. I had to do this with my shoulder impingement and it really helped my shoulder heal faster and the preworkout exercises I got from them helped tremendously. They may have you layoff the activites that impact the injury the most for a while as you rebuild the area and your strength in the shoulder, but I believe you would come out much stronger.

Btw flat bench causes alot of stress on shoulder injuries so even though it sucks not to do it for a while, you would be better off switching to something else while you rehab the area.
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