Bicep pain - JP Fitness Forums

Alcoholiday · 03-13-2008, 09:14 PM

1. When did the pain begin?
I would say it began to hurt maybe a month ago-a few weeks

2. What were you doing at the time? Or did the pain come on gradually over time?
It happened after my workouts. I've been doing Oly lifting, and it doesn't hurt on cleans or really snatches. It mainly only hurts on overhead presses. It doesn't hurt on the bottom of a press, probably b/c i'm using my legs to drive the bar from the bottom, but just the last few inches of lockout, it gets a sort of pulling pain to it.

3. Where, anatomically, is the pain?
Right bicep, not left one

4. What does the pain feel like? Sharp? Dull? Aching? Stabbing? Shooting?
I guess more like a pulling, sharp pain right at lockout.

5. Is the pain constant, or intermittent, or only on certain motions?

Mainly just on overhead presses that i can tell. I haven't been doing mixed grip on deadlifts to avoid any pulling. The pain comes and goes though. Some days it's fine, and then other days, it hurts to press. It's a little sore today, and i still managed a real good workout today (minus any pressing).

6. What motions make your pain worse?
i would say overhead pressing occasionally. Other times it doesn't hurt at all.

7. What, if anything, makes your pain better?
i've been icing, asprin and resting. It feels better and then it seems like i irritate it somehow, and it comes back?

8. Does your pain radiate to any other part of your body?
nope

9. What things could you do before, that you cannot do now because of your injury?
I think overhead pressing is the only thing that i'm really limited in.

10. What is your main concern regarding the pain and its consequences?
I want to be able to OHP w/o pain. I have a contest coming up in july. It's a pain that i could probably push through, but since the contest is so far away, i figured it's best right now to just rest it and see if it gets better

11. Have you ever injured that part of your body before? If so, how?
nope

12. Is your pain getting worse over time? And if so, how much worse over what time period?
It's not really getting worse, but it's not getting better it seems. It never really "heals", i just keep tweaking it it seems.

Anyone have any idea what this could be or a better suggestion on what to do to remedy it? I stretch my bicep and chest before workouts, and warm up the area well. I've been using biofreeze on it a lot, and icing the past few days, and upping my asprin dose. I've also been doing high rep curls on the days i lift to get some blood flow to it.

UConnJulie · 03-14-2008, 12:24 PM

Biceps tendon (long head) pain is often from impingement ... how's your posture? Thoracic mobility? Scapular stabilization?

ryan122185 · 03-14-2008, 03:26 PM

that areas hard to work on... I have a friend an o-lifter. He had a tight bicep but the origin of what was going on was his neck.

I would recommend going to a good soft tissue person.

LisaS · 03-14-2008, 03:30 PM

silly me - but right biceps isn't very specific - I assumed up in the shoulder from the OH press part but for future reference- where is the pain?
in the muscle belly?
up in the shoulder at the origin - long head tendon?
at the elbow at the tendon/insertion?

Alcoholiday · 03-14-2008, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by UConnJulie

Biceps tendon (long head) pain is often from impingement ... how's your posture? Thoracic mobility? Scapular stabilization?

posture's good. not sure how i test for scapular stabilization or thoratic mobility?

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Originally Posted by Ryan

that areas hard to work on... I have a friend an o-lifter. He had a tight bicep but the origin of what was going on was his neck.

I would recommend going to a good soft tissue person.

Yea, i'm thinking i might have to go to an ART guy. If i was to do it, i know that one of my training partners goes to a guy 45min from kokomo, but i think Bill Hartman also does ART, and since i trust his advice, and he's helped me before, i'd probably consider going to him.

I'm thinking that if i go to a doctor, they'd tell me it was tendonitis, tell me to rest, ice, and asprin, and then charge me 500 bucks. I'd rather find out WHAT'S causing my problem so i can remedy it rather than what it is.

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Originally Posted by Lisa

Yea lisa, i know it wasn't really specific, i just wasn't too familiar with the anatomy of the bicep. I'll take a picture of it in a minute, and circle the area.

Alcoholiday · 03-14-2008, 06:52 PM

here ya go. it's closer to the crease in my arm than my shoulder...

UConnJulie · 03-14-2008, 08:21 PM

Hmmm ... with that location I wouldn't think impingement ...

Go see Bill ... that's my advice!!

Lost Dog · 03-14-2008, 09:17 PM

Huh. I don't see a bicep...

bryanc · 03-16-2008, 06:34 AM

Does anything else aggravate your pain? Curls? Hammer curls? Stretching?

P.S. Stop stretching before your workouts. Stretching is for after. Pre-stretching is associated with a higher rate of injury.

Alcoholiday · 03-16-2008, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by bryanc

Does anything else aggravate your pain? Curls? Hammer curls? Stretching?

P.S. Stop stretching before your workouts. Stretching is for after. Pre-stretching is associated with a higher rate of injury.

I don't really do curls much. But nothing else really seems to aggravate it. I feel a tweak sometimes when i drop the cleans after i've completed the lift, but that's about it.

I'll stop stretching pre workouts.