Stinger

Beau

Have a stinger in my shoulder, its nearly gone.

I was in the gym today doing my squats and it hurt and I couldn't even lift what I did last week. My bench and power clean wasn't effected. Strange eh? surely the bench would've felt it more? So am I just clutching at straws or would it effect my squat?

Mhmm...weetabix

Beau wrote: »

Have a stinger in my shoulder, its nearly gone.

I was in the gym today doing my squats and it hurt and I couldn't even lift what I did last week. My bench and power clean wasn't effected. Strange eh? surely the bench would've felt it more? So am I just clutching at straws or would it effect my squat?

If I remember rightly stingers are usually American slang for description of trapped nerve right?? It's usually spinal nerves but anyway, if it's along the traps or in the scapular thoracic area pressure from the bar could definitely effect it...

kevpants

Did you get when you tripped over the fire hydrant on the sidewalk on your way to the 7/11 with Chuck and Brad?

WTF is a stinger?

dioltas

I thought he meant he had a sting from a bee or wasp stuck in his shoulder. was gona suggest cutting it out...

Roper

I thought this was going to be like- I came out of the gym and my bag had been nicked... what a stinger.

Jumpy

kevpants wrote: »

WTF is a stinger?

Its a typo mate.

Beau

haha to be honest I was told what I had by a team mate (from my description of the pain and lack of overhead movement), I never heard of it either but I googled it and it sounds right, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinger_(medicine)

Mhmm...weetabix

Actually just had a quick think about this again!
If you're extending your neck on a squat you can compress the Cervical Thoracic Junction (where the cervical spine meets the thoracic at C7 T1). Might be an Idea to get it checked (check your technique aswell)out by a physio or an Osteopath, I'd bet a CT lift would help alleviate that bad boy right there If you feel that area I'd say it's extremely prominent, well more so then before you started squatting, mightened be something you notice. Anyways if this is left untreated (way in the long run)you can develop a Dowingers hump which is a hump in the area and is permanent. Anyways, in short, get it assessed!

Beau

Thanks (had to google alot of words I didn't know), I felt it after a match so I doubt its my squat. Whats a CT lift? Its clearing up by itself anyway, to be honest I thought it was pretty much gone but I felt it in the gym a good bit. Its sore along my kneck, traps and (was) extremely sore on contact on a point in my shoulder.

Mhmm...weetabix

You said you felt it while doing squats. If you're extending your neck when lifting as some people do you close the CT junction, If you've done this enough the vertebrae can become extended causing nerve pinching & facet irritation which would explain why you felt this pain on your squat but not your BP. A ct lift is a manual release technique used by Osteopaths, physical therapists and Chiropractors (<- I think). It gaps the CT junction and allowing the C7 T1 junction to release and go back to normal.