shoulder pain :-(

Kari828 started this discussion · 7/12/2009

OK, I saw a post about this a while ago, but I can't find it now... about 9 times out of 10 whenever i do a chopper i get bad shoulder pain, its only with the chopper thou, no other invert. Its between my spin and shoulder blade, kinda under the shoulder blade a little bit. I was just wondering what exactly it was and what, if any, exercises i could do to build up my strength there because it makes me really not want to do choppers, but i love choppers!! HELP! thanks guys!! 🙂

5 replies

RoxyPink · 7/12/2009
okay...are you kicking into it?? You really need to lift from your abs into the chopper..also make sure your shoulders are back and down!! That's VERY important! 😀 !!
Kari828 · 7/12/2009
i don't kick into it, i use my arms and abs mostly... im not sure about my shoulder position though... ill post a vid of how i do it so you can tell me if im doing it right... thanks a lot Roxy!! 😀
Veena · 7/12/2009
Ok I just watched your vid.....You have your inverting under control so that's good! Sooo it hurts on the opposite side that you invert on?? right? Also when you say hurt do you mean sharp pain or dull or stiff and sore? Its hard to tell from the vid but, it looks like you MIGHT be lifting up into the move with your back sightly rounded forward and the shoulders are up...which would engaging your rhomboids heavily. So by not pulling your shoulder back and down first you can get that pain. Soooo try pressing the shoulders down and back first, then you can't round your back and over stress your rhomboids. Always back and down hold it and them move into the invert. I hope that helps.....let me know if it doesn't. Take a break from inverts for a few days, then try out my advice, I love your dancing and want to see you feeling better 🌸 🌸
Kari828 · 7/12/2009
thank so much Veena! so between what you and Fluer said Im thinking its my rhomboids...And yes to your question about which side, it is always the opposite side no matter which side i invert on...it is also a sharp pulling pain, the first few times i just worked through it (bad idea i know 😕 ) and i was sore for days after so i pretty much stopped doing choppers all together...i will lay off inverts for a couple days and try again with better shoulder position, but also, i was wondering if there where any exercises i could do to build up my strength there as well...? I saw your vid for the rotator cuff exercises, would that work? Fluer suggested pole pull ups too so i will work on those... I just really dont want to get hurt or over strain a muscle so anything i could do to stay strong and get stronger would be great! thanks so much everyone for all your help! i really appreciate it! 😁 😁
Foxy_Rei · 7/13/2009
I had this same problem, and Veena met me in chat one day to show me proper form (shoulders back and down thing) and also some strength training. Using the same idea from the shoulder strengthening vid (the same one you were asking about, take the T position (from the ITYs or whatever she calls them) and instead of having your arms straight out, hold them slightly further back. That will target the area between your shoulder blades more.