Testosterone and my supraspinatus

[tical]

I'm pretty sure I injured this muscle when putting down some dumbells after doing an overhead press a while back while I was on.

Currently in physical therapy where they have me stretching bands and doing some electronic stimulation post workout to massage the area. Taking anti-inflamatory meds too. They believe its bursitus or tendonitus... I've been off for a while now (3 months+) and went to the doc because it would act up on me in the gym and get weak real quick, hard to workout w/ it on the back of your mind.

My question is, anyone know how long this type of injury takes to heal? They said I can't workout any upper body at all for at least 3 weeks but usually longer.

Would doing something like Deca help this injury heal (giving room to the muscle) or just mask the pain and make things worse?

 

[ceo]

I'd bet that 3 weeks off would be a good thing for you right now. Let your body heal mang...sans deca.

 

[Kingwinny]

Would doing something like Deca help this injury heal (giving room to the muscle) or just mask the pain and make things worse?[/QUOTE]

Deca will not Heal this injury. I can promise you that. It may mask the pain and you might hurt it worse.

Give it time to heal and don't let anyone tell you Deca will heal it.

 

[Blackwatersurprise]

My Infraspinatus is screwed right now. Has been for four months. I can't bench, except that I can do close grip. And my close grip now is up to where I was on a regular grip four months ago. Three things have made it bearable: 1)Switching exercises ie: Regular grips to close grips on exercises. 2) Changing my rep ranges: I dont think the rotator muscles are really suited for high reps especially when failing. 3) Leave a rep in the bank and dont fail. I'm growing plenty and am harder without failing, I just have to add more volume....10 sets of 5 heavy. NPP, in a couple of months, not sure if that will act the same as Deca in the pain category???