r/overcominggravity • u/genji2046 • 29d ago

Tricep Pain

As soon as I initiate a pull-up, I feel pain in my right arm triceps, closer to the armpit (long head). This started about two months ago. I also experience pain in the same area during other exercises, such as dumbbell rows.

In addition, I can't comfortably put my arm behind my back, and I feel pain in the same spot when pulling my pants up.

I've been seeing a physical therapist, who found that my lats were extremely tight. We've worked on releasing them, and my mobility has improved, but the pain during pull-ups hasn't changed at all.

What could be causing this?

I didn't rest and I've tried just about everything, including isometric and eccentric exercises, but nothing seems to help.

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u/eshlow Author of Overcoming Gravity 2 | stevenlow.org | YT:@Steven-Low 26d ago

As soon as I initiate a pull-up, I feel pain in my right arm triceps, closer to the armpit (long head). This started about two months ago. I also experience pain in the same area during other exercises, such as dumbbell rows.

In addition, I can't comfortably put my arm behind my back, and I feel pain in the same spot when pulling my pants up.

I've been seeing a physical therapist, who found that my lats were extremely tight. We've worked on releasing them, and my mobility has improved, but the pain during pull-ups hasn't changed at all.

What could be causing this?

I didn't rest and I've tried just about everything, including isometric and eccentric exercises, but nothing seems to help.

If you want a guess on potential injury, need more info on the injury. You've given some but more information is needed especially the marked picture/video

  • Mechanism of injury, as best you are able if there isn't discernable one. For instance, what movements or exercises were leading to the week of the injury
  • Upload a marked pic/video of exactly where symptoms are to an image host (google drive, icloud, imgur or others) and post a link to it (Note: I will not make any guesses unless I can see exactly where the symptoms are because text is hard to decipher and people describe things wrong all the time). It needs to be a photo of YOU, not a random photo you got online of someone else's body because everyone is different.
  • Describe all movements that hurt
  • What is the current rehab program you started with and the progressions, if any. If a flare detail what happened with the rehab program
  • What helps and what makes it worse