Hi guys,

I'm a 25yo guy with what I think is an anterior deltoid problem. I first injured myself when I started bench pressing about 2 years ago, and have had slight pain ever since. When I bench press, I feel a fairly sharp pain in my left deltoid, close to where it joins to the bicep. I think that my bench press form has been too wide and possibly too high, causing too much strain on the deltoid rather than my chest when bench pressing. I've only realised this now, with some research and will obviously be changing my form when I decide to go back to the bench press.

I recently got back into weight training (6-8 weeks ago) and the problem is still there, so I doubt that rest alone is going to be a big help here. Apart from changing my form to reduce the stress on the delt, is there anything that I can do to rehabilitate or strengthen that area, so that I can eventually go back to bench pressing? I was thinking of front raises , or silimar isometric exercises, but I'm not sure how much I should be doing to promote healing and not make it worse?

Any help would be great!
Thanks,
Sam

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