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Sorry if it's been posted before, I did a search and couldn't come up with what I was looking for. For the past ooooo 3-4 months I've had painless popping/clicking in my right shoulder which seems to originate around the acromion process.. Like I said it is painless and it only pops when I circumduct it or retract it say when I throw a right-cross. I'm hoping I haven't damaged my shoulder joint, as I know the shoulder joints are fragile. :(
Thanks
Had some one on here with a similar problem last week.
Probably an imbalance between your chest/anterior shoulder muscles (punching muscles so they tend to be over developed in boxers because obviously we spend a lot of time punching... ;)) and your rhomboids/rotator cuff muscles.
Any chance you could show us a picture of you from a side profile? you probably have Kyphosis/upper cross syndrome.
If your shoulders slump forwards rather than sticking backwards then you'll know that you need to strengthen your back muscles to get your shoulder into a better place.
Did this gradually develop or did you have some form of injury?
The clicking/popping is probably just the sound/feeling of the connective tissues clicking over each other/bone process.
Could be a number of things, I'd have to look at you really but there's a few ideas.
Great analogy Adam.
I have the same symptom in my left shoulder - it clicks all the time when I rotate it in any manner. I previously played highly competitive baseball (threw right handed) and developed it after that I stopped. As Adam said, it is likely due to imbalance in the development of muscles. I've had no issues due to it so far, and hope it stays that way.
Shoulder injuries seem to occur more frequently than many realise, I think.
Easily done for those that lift weights - risky exercises being things like press behind neck, and chins / lat-pulldowns behind the neck. So if you do any weights, don't do those variations, and actually as a generalism, if you lift weights don't press behind the neck, or do pulldowns behind the neck - and be very careful with upright rows.
I've had some shoulder issues for some time, and whenever I heard it being discussed, I always heard people talking about a book called the 7 minute rotator cuff solution. Well it's rarer than hen's teeth these days, so I bought a book from Amazon:-
Treat Your Own Rotator Cuff: Amazon.co.uk: Jim Johnson: Books
Which I found pretty good at educating about the shoulder, plus help in understanding and remediating problems.
I'd also echo the other comments in the thread - often shoulder problems can be due to an imbalance in the shoulder area - more often than not, the front part of the shoulder is stronger and more developed than the rear - perhaps as a result of many who train, favouring pressing movements to pulling / rowing movements. That is also a worthy consideration for shoulder health.