Well, it rolls around in the joint all day. It's always grinding and sliding and popping. I haven't had a bad subluxation in a while. Right now, I'm feeling most of the pain... Here is a diagram.



Everything is sore except for the sternoclavicular joint. It's easier to say what isn't sore/inflamed than what is. Interestingly, the scapulothoracic joint is what's most sore today. It normally doesn't bother me too much. When I bench press, I think it's the glenohumeral joint that bothers me the most. Today in the gym I had a numbness/throbbing in my left arm and it felt like I lost about a third of the sensation that I had in that arm...so I decided to pack up and head home because I didn't want to make it worse. It's doing better now.

As far as the kind of pain....it's just a mild dull pain throughout the day. Warming up is the worst. It feels like I can't ever get the joints fully warmed up in my shoulder. It's a dull pain during the warm up, but every time the joints flex under tension, the pain becomes pretty acute. I don't actually notice it when I'm lifting heavy because my mind is on other things like not dropping the weight on myself. When the joints get warm, they're not as bad but it always sucks. Range of motion isn't good either. When I warm up for push press, I normally do standing military press up to 135 or so and then start to go up in 10 or 15lb increments doing push press until I get to my working weight before I start my sets. I pressed 115 twice today and it was all I could do get the weight up...so there seems to be some loss of strength.

I've heard that the neutral grip works well for lots of people with shoulder problems. I'm glad you mentioned that. I'm going to give that a go this week and see how it feels. Can you pinpoint your pain on that diagram?

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