how can you tell if arm pain is referred or local?
I am a middle-aged runner and cyclist (and paddler and swimmer) who has only been working seriously at strength training for seven months.
I decided to build up to a pullup.
So I was very happily messing around with hanging off the bar, and then a month or so later I added some negatives. I would start above the bar, peel slowly off and try to control down my descent. Made my forearms darned sore, but it was all good. And I was getting infinitesimally better at it, too.
Tiny but real progress!
About three weeks ago, a buddy showed me this pullup contraption that counterbalances your weight. I did two sets of 10 proto-pullups on that thing; and then I walked around holding two 25 pound dumbbells to see how long my hand grip would last.
That farmers walk wasn't especially hard. I did three sets; and it was my right hand that weakened first. But it also was a new exercise for me.
The next day there was a new and unfamiliar, very local tenderness in the middle of my upper left arm.
This was three weeks ago.
It only hurts when I touch it, but it aches and the arm feels incompetent when I try to pull the arm across my body at chest height.
I'm having more than my usual vast amounts of difficulty with pushups, and if I do a dip, I feel a little something wrong.
If I tighten the muscles in my upper arm and press my fingers over this spot, which is about halfway between my shoulder and elbow and kinda on the outside when my arm is straight down by my side with the thumb facing front, the tenderness isn't there to the touch.
I've read that shoulder injuries tend to refer pain down the arm. My left shoulder doesn't seem to hurt, though.
What idiot thing have I done to myself this time?
celia
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