Shoulder Impingement/ Mobility Restrictions

I have been dealing with a very weird specific issue for the past 2 years. I am an avid weightlifter and this involves weightlifting. I would say weightlifting is my life, if I could not weightlift I don't know what I would do.

My issue is that my left shoulder naturally is rounded which gives me mobility restrictions and pain. It is not a postural issue my shoulder naturally just sits in an internally rotated position

The issues it gives me are:
- Shoulder impingement
- pain when doing specific things in the gym ( Bench Press uneven, cant activate back muscles on left side when doing back workouts)
- bicep pain
- tight pecs/lats on left side
- poor scapula control on left side(not winging, but i cannot protract or retract my scapula normally)
- poor external rotation on left shoulder

^^^ These mobility restrictions do limit me significantly in the gym so I am having a hard time believing it is tms. I have used TMS for carpal tunnel in the past with success. If there was only pain I would 100% buy into tms for this but these mobility restrictions just seem like a real structural problem. I have never had any shoulder injuries and I do not have scoliosis. So I am extremely confused on what I should do. I am working with a PT online for my mobility restrictions, I think this could help as far as performance or would this just be counterintuitive with the TMS viewpoint?

I have become obsessed with this and it has made me depressed, grumpy, and stressed. I am someone who struggles with anxiety, stress, and OCD, so TMS does apply to me in a lot of aspects I'm just not sure if these mobility restrictions apply.

I don't know if anyone who is a weightlifter who participates in this forum could help guide me but it would be greatly appreciated!

 

I'm not a weightlifter by any stretch of the imagination, but I went through 3 years of intense left shoulder pain. Early on, a specialist said, well, your shoulder doesn't look bad but your neck Xray is so bad you should be in excruciating pain for the rest of your life, but you might get some relief from PT. Nothing worked. I had, I should add, had a complete cure from carpal tunnel more than 10 years earlier--one of those instant cures when I was introduced to TMS and that cut the pain--for good. But back to the shoulder.... after 3 years, I finally admitted to myself it was TMS. Plus I recognized there was someone in my life who was toxic. I made the firm decision to get away from them. And presto, I was pain free! Not even a twinge of pain in the shoulder for 2 full years. I did have a relapse in the past month, and I believe I understand why.

But all that is to say that, specifics aside, don't underestimate the vulnerability of a shoulder to TMS. And as far as the brain is concerned, it's just "one step up" from RSI in the wrists.

 

I have going to the gym for 50 years lifting weights, etc. In 2006 I developed extreme neck and shoulder pain (including surgeries), so I quit, except for extremely LOW weights. Last year after starting the TMS program and it stated to just ignore your pain and live your life, I started to up the weights. I am not completely out of pain, but mostly and when working out the pain does not increase.

 

Impingement is based on the 'Medieval Structural Mythology' of which Sarno wrote at length. Like a wedge can get in there or something.
I had a shoulder episode as my first relapse of TMS, ,after I had recovered from backpain. Of course it seemed very 'real' as the pain and discomfort grew...I couldn't lift my arm up into certain positions w/o it feeling like it couldn't move any farther and if I forced it, it was painful...and of course throwing a baseball

Paying attention to my own experience...After resting it for a weekend and getting an injection of steroids, it got WORSE. That weekend was my brothers wedding that I didn't want to go to...I was told by my family they would help watch our kids (we were in Vegas) but of course No one did... I had been throwing extended batting practices (blamed for the pain) yet taking that whole relaxing weekend off, it was way more painful...and that was when the lightbulb came on.

It was just a new attempt at TMS to distract me. I actually went and threw a LONG batting practice , in pain, focusing on (among other things) how much I resented coaching rather than playing....and the pain was gone after throwing an even longer than usual BP.

My neighbor who had gotten free of backpain at the same time I did by reading Sarno also came down with Shoulder pain... He decided his was 'real' and went and had surgery...I lost track of him, but I do remember hearing him and his fiancee' fighting like gangbusters through the wall right before his 'real' shoulder issue. I did NOT tell him what I can freely post on an anonymous forum because of weird social 'rules', right?

Doing this for 25 years I have found there are very few 'real' things that cause pain because of our bodies ability to adjust and adapt...it has been that way for me through knee, shoulder, foot , Thumbs(both of them simultaneously) and other stuff... it HAS tricked me before with some things.
There is always something obvious to everybody else that I am not seeing. It's a little easier to find these days because of resources like this forum and friends who have recovered.