Thread: Direct muscle injection questions

I believe you are referring to intra-muscular injection. Injectable steroids as well as other compounds/medications are administered via IM injection.

Originally Posted by showtime104

can anyone tell me anything on direct muscle injections mainly the shoulders. ive been lifting and my shoulders have been fine and the other day my shoulder gave out and dislocated again after almost 2 years of no problems and i was only warm up pressing 5 reps in and it came out so i was talkin with a guy i no and he said he's heard of people doing it so im down to try anything when i get back to that point so any info is better than no info please if you can

RU looking for info on steroids (gear) or steroids (corticosteroids). If you popped it out of place, your probably in a shit load of pain. Corticosteroids are given to reduce swelling and pain.

More info from you is needed....

ya its been commin out off and on for dam near 30 years and the pain is always there i cant max nothin anymore just have my own limits and ya what he said lol i couldnt remember the exact term used

Sucks about the shoulder man, sorry to hear about it. Have you thought about surgery yet? Since it sounds like a reoccurring thing...

Yea man, I'd seriously consider looking into some sort of surgery. Basically your shoulder is a bunch of ligaments holding a ball in its socket. The ligaments are like rubber hands. Once you dislocate it or pop it, eventually it starts to lose strength. If its popping out a lot, it's a sign that even with weigh training, those ligaments are healing properly. I'm not am ortho doctor or even nurse, but you should really way your options now.

The last thing you want is to have a "frozen shoulder" and been unable to even lift your arm anymore.

You need to det a docs opinion on it as i woud say you need to go under the knife.

Sounds like a damaged rotator cuff...especially after 30a years of it. Get a surgery man.

I had a subluxation of my R shoulder while playing football in high school. It popped out twice during my senior year. I never got it looked at. When I was 40 I had so much osteoarthritis in that shoulder the humeral head had undergone structural changes. I had a partial shoulder replacement done. I had the humeral head replaced with a titanium ball that is attached to a long titanium spike glued to the inside of my humerus. The delrin cup that is normally glued onto a resurfaced glenoid process was instead covered with cadaver knee cartilage. I have no restrictions. I can lift, participate in martial arts, etc. If I had just gone to a doctor and had the shoulder tightened back up, I could have avoided the 1-year rehab of my partial shoulder replacement.

Go see a surgeon.

sometimes surgery can even make it stonger than before.

Just to add to this discussion, if you do not get it checked and prolong having surgery, you could have to have what is called an "open" repair. I remember being in the operating room for one of these...it isn't fun for the patient or the surgeons

Agreed on surgey-but make sure you do the homework on the doc-want the best of the best...shoulders do more than people think--almost all pulls and presses (upper body) utilize this joint. Had similar but not exact same issue. Rehab on it was a bitch, but doable....