Hello All,
Firstly, I would like to thank you in advance for reading my post, and secondly, please go easy with me, as this is my first time on this forum….
I am an amateur bodybuilder, and towards the end of last year, I woke in the early of hours of the morning with terrible pain in my neck and shoulders, the pain was that bad, I couldn’t lift my chin of my chest, and the only relief from the pain, was by putting my right hand on the top of my my head.

The doctor and physiotherapist that I seen confirmed that it was just muscle cramps in my traps area. This diagnosis was obviously made by my symptoms that I was experiencing. The pain subsided after about 3 / 4 days and I correctly took some time off from the weight room (about 6 weeks) during my time off from the gym, I started to notice that my right triceps and right mid pec reign starting to atrophy (the mid section of my right pec feels like theirs a delve in it). When I went back to the gym, I was utterly shocked with the strength that I lost in my right pec and triceps, I dropped from a regular 140 kg bench press to about 30KG and triceps kickbacks on the right side were almost impossible to do.
I was obviously concerned at this point, so I went back to the doctor who said that it may be a trapped nerve in C6/7 and sent me off for a MRI- the results came back as all clear. Good news in one sense, but still left me with no idea as to what I was suffering from.
Anyhow, it is now 6 months after the initial injury, and I am now experiencing sporadic muscle twitching in my right pictorials (normally the mid area) and in my right triceps. So the question that I would like to ask you professionals is, is this a sign of early recovery. I’m back at the gym, and I am still much weaker on my right side when bench pressing (about 40% weaker) but it now feels more comfortable to drive the weight up. I feel pretty excited about this, but am I jumping to conclusions.
I would truly appreciate any comments or similar experience as I live for my sport, and it has been a very depressing time for me not being able to work out the way I enjoy it.
PS - apologies for the lack of medical terminology

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