Strained/Torn Trapezius/Neck Muscles

Ouch.  I do something to my traps or shoulders about once a year lifting weights.  Normally it's due to bad form, or worse moving your head when you should be keeping it still.  Typically I can feel it right when it happens, not this time though.  Can't remember turning my head while lifting or the all telling sharp hot pain of muscle tearing.  But sure enough the soreness happened a day later.  Right now I can't turn my head left very well, nor hold my head up at a proper angle.  Nor can I raise my left arm to "massage" the sore muscle, without feeling like I'm going to pass out.  Drinking out of a cup is pretty interesting too, I need to get a straw.  Feeling a bit like Joan Cusack in these scenes from Sixteen Candles. 

Posted on: Dec 07, 2005

Posted by: ThinGuy

Category: Misc

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Ouch - as someone who suffers fairly constantly from upper back/neck gripes, I really sympathise.
I don't know if this is useful, but when I have the kind of 'cricked neck' symptoms you describe, it's often because I've done something to the 'bottom end' of the trapezius, and the 'top end' has seized up in sympathy.
Usually a visit to the chiropractor sets me right...
Hope you feel better soon!

Posted by Robin Wilton on December 07, 2005 at 09:56 AM PST #

I seem to have a torn trapezius; or somehow strained it,although I haven't done anything heavy in the past few days. I originally had a light crick in the area, then yesterday when I awoke, it was explosive getting off the bed and standing upright. I've found that making a simple arm sling (right side, and I'm right-handed)helps relieve the pressure when I move to an upright position from sitting or lying down. What's that treatment for this?

Posted by tom wynne on March 31, 2006 at 09:45 PM PST #

I have shoulder impingement for 3 years now.
My discomfort is chronic. Its always there.

Well, about 8 weeks ago, I helped my daughter carry a small wood cabinet to the curb. I remember lifting the sides of it, yet twisting my head toward the front to see where we were going.
Three days later I awoke with terrible neck pain(esp when tilting head back)
My shoulder and upper arm hurt as well.
Sometimes the clavicle also felt painful. Like, I wanted to sling the arm to take pressure off(seems if I let my arm hang or lean forward pain goes from back of top of shoulder to arm.
I am being told, by dr, (without an xray or mri) that I "aggravated" the shoulder impingement and at this point have brusitis.
I dont know if I agree with this dr.
All I know is...I am in pain, have been in off and on pain for the last 8 weeks.
Do I have an incorrect diag and actually strain something?

arlene

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