Pain in the delta

Pain in the delta is a pain in the deltoid muscle, which is abbreviated as delta. Causes can be quite serious injuries of the shoulder or arm, swelling in the shoulder, improper exercise, and much more. In any case, you need to contact an orthopedic doctor or traumatologist to find out the causes of pain in the delta and deal with them.

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What are the causes of pain in the delta?

The muscular nerve is damaged (it is called a mixed nerve)

The motor fibers of this nerve can innervate the delta and the round small muscle. Nervous roots become sensitive in the region of the superior cutaneous lateral nerve located in the shoulder. The skin around the shoulder can hurt.

The muscular nerve can also be affected in the fovea over the clavicle, and the skin-muscular nerve, which is capable of causing Erb's paralysis, begins to be involved in this process. The shoulder can not be lowered or lifted due to paralyzed muscles. The sensitivity of the skin is also disturbed, especially in the outer part of the shoulder.

Why do such injuries occur?

These injuries can most often occur in sportsmen-siloviki or people who are engaged in heavy manual labor. Because they work most of the arms and shoulders, and work is under a lot of stress. Bodybuilders can get pain in the delta when they work on pumping their breasts. Pain may occur during or after exercise on bench press or bench press, which is done on the bench at an incline. Exercises for raising hands and raising hands with a load can also cause such painful discomfort in the delta.

But it means, after such painful sensations it is impossible to be engaged in power exercises for a pumping of a breast? Not at all. Just such exercises need to be done correctly. And you will achieve the desired result without pain in the delta. First of all, before the exercise, you need to stretch and warm the tendons of the shoulders and hands.

In addition, you should not use a very large grip when pressing. It is more correct to do on the width of the shoulders or wider, but only a little bit. And you also need to properly remove your elbows. They need to be retracted, so that the point of touch to the chest of the bench and the arms are on one straight line, which is located directly under the weights.

When the touch of the chest passes below the point of contact, or your elbows are brought closer to the torso, you need to transfer the emphasis of weight to the tendons of the front deltoid muscles and the biceps band from the chest area.

If the bundle of biceps leaves its place during the training, any load, even a small one, can provoke its friction on the bone mass, and then inflammation develops and a tumor in the delta can develop.

The bunch that has swelled up can not go back because it has become too thick. And any physical load makes this process very painful and complicated. And then you get a so-called self-renewing trauma, when the ligament and bone themselves cause pain due to constant friction against each other.

If the athlete does not pay attention and continues to train, despite the pain in the delta, he may soon experience pain in the entire upper body and any movements become impossible. The reason is destabilization of the joint bag of the entire shoulder. With strong anomalies, the ligament can even rub a new bed in the bone, which lies not far from the natural one - this can be clearly seen on X-rays.

What is delta?

The deltoid muscle, that is, the delta, is a thick and large muscle. It originates from the clavicle with a spatula, behind the shoulder, and extends to the place where it is attached, that is, to the top of the forearm. This muscle - like a three-headed Serpent - three-headed, but you do not need to be afraid of it. Is that when it hurts. The delta consists of three beams. Bunches are divided into anterior, posterior and the one in the middle - the middle one. For this three-beam structure delta and got its name. And for the amazing similarity with the Greek letter delta.

The main role of the delta is to raise the hands of a person and allow them to rotate. If this does not work out due to pain, then the delta has problems. How does the delta work on lifting and rotating hands? The front beam of the delta (also called the head of the delta) allows the arm to rise forward, the middle beam of the delta helps raise the hand to the side, and thanks to the back beam, the hand is retracted.

From how the skeleton of the shoulder girdle is constructed, the width of the shoulders depends. The square form of the shoulders, like that of a champion, is attached to the straightness of the clavicles. And those clavicles, which are called slanting, give the shoulders a narrower and sloping configuration. What people have shoulders depends on nature. But their shape can be changed by doing and doing special exercises. You just need to learn how to train the delta - deltoid muscle.

To the back, middle and front parts of the muscle are attached the fibers, which also connect the awn and the actomyon of the scapula. This attachment is called proximal. There is another type of attachment of muscle fibers - distal. So the fibers of the muscles are attached to the humerus, its tuberosity in the form of a delta. The fact that the fibers of the muscles of the middle part are not located in the same way as the fibers of the posterior and anterior regions, makes it possible to arrange the terminal plates differently.

Their functions are also different. The upper aspect of the delta in its front part covers the head of the shoulder bone, so the upper limb has the ability to bend. The middle part of the delta allows you to withdraw your arm to the side, and the back part of the delta allows you to unbend and bend the arm in the shoulder joint. All three parts of the deltas make it possible to take your hand to the side. The anterior and posterior parts of the muscle compete while the human arm is unbent and bent. All three parts of the delta are simultaneously contracted, this allows the muscle over the bone to help the hand to be sideways in the shoulder area.

The front part of the delta works synergistically, interacting with the large pectoral muscle (part of its clavicle), the biceps muscle (its long head), and the coracoid muscle. The delta in its back works together with the widest back muscle, as well as the long head of the biceps brachial muscle and the round large muscle.

In what movements is the deltoid muscle involved?

With the muscles that cross the axis of the shoulder joint across and in front of the deltoid muscle, the shoulder can flex. To this group of muscles belong the delta (its anterior part), the large muscle of the chest, the beak muscle of the shoulder, the brachial biceps muscle.

The muscles that unbend the shoulder also cross the axis of the joint across, but they lie behind it. This also includes the deltoid muscle, its posterior part, as well as the back muscle, which is called the latissimus, refers to this group and a small round muscle, as well as a large round muscle and a triceps muscle - its long head. The muscles that participate in the process of leaning the shoulder are able to cross the sagittal axis. They are located outside of it, they are called the naostnuyu muscle and deltoid muscle.

The so-called shoulder pronation is a function of the muscles that cross the axis vertically. This makes the muscle above the shoulder blades, the back muscle, which is called the latissimus, the muscle is large and round, the pectoral muscle (also large), the deltoid muscle in its anterior part.

Reflected pain in the delta

It arises from the myoscephalic trigger regions of the delta. It differs from other types of pain in that it does not extend to a large range. Pain usually centers in any of the three parts of the delta or in all at once. It is rather difficult to find a trigger point, but it is worthwhile to know that it is located more often in the place where a separate zone of the motor end plate is concentrated.

Long-term pain in the delta (in the region of myofascial points) can result from a traumatic impact. Such injuries most often occur in sports competitions or with strong physical strain, during the competition. For example, when a person bent strongly in the shoulder joint. There is such a pain and the result of the introduction of medicines under the skin. Then the tissue in the place of localization of the trigger latent points is irritated, and pain in the delta is inevitable. Trigger points that are located not only in the delta, but also in other muscles, especially in the region above the axis, can also give a strong pain in the delta.

The hand is not injured, but the pain in the delta is still troubling

Under these circumstances, when the arm is very sore, as if you were hurt, and there was no injury, the cause may be a spasm of the deltoid muscle and pain in it. Spasm can occur with a strong reduction in the delta during training, especially power. It can be walking on skis, lifting the bar to the level of the shoulders. Pain in the delta can cause even everyday reasons: gluing of wallpaper, painting walls, especially if the hand has to be lifted up. The causes may be injections that irritate delta trigger points, as well as diseases of bones and joints, such as osteochondrosis or arthrosis.

Tendonitis of the biceps or shoulder

Tendonitis of the shoulder or biceps can be mistaken for a shoulder injury, because the pain is localized in it. What is biceps tendonitis? This is the result of the tendon coming out of its bed at the end of the hammerus at the top (this is the largest part of the shoulder). This situation can be resolved almost in all cases - in 95%. A person can feel severe pain in the area of the front beam of the delta (below). Therefore, he may think that this ball has caused an injury. In fact, this is not so.

The diagnosis error can be the definition of bursitis as a cause, or the joint bag on the shoulder girdle may be stretched. But the real reason is the shift of the tendon. If the tendon is not corrected and returned to its proper place, the pain continues and grows. If the tendon is shifted from its rightful place, the back and sides of the tendons of the shoulder are under strong pressure, inflammation develops in them, and they disturb the person with severe pain. And then the entire joint of the shoulder can become inflamed.

What should I do with my shoulder strap?

First, you need to stop mocking your own body and temporarily stop training. And also any loads that can cause pain in the delta. Then the tumor needs to be removed with the help of anti-inflammatory drugs, for example, with diclofenac or ibuprofen in the composition. It is possible to weaken the tumor and also put ice on the shoulder, doing this approximately 20 minutes 3 times a day. The tumor in the delta drops for a long time - up to 10 days. At this time, there are no serious loads.

When the inflammatory process in the delta is minimal, you can begin to direct the ligament. Putting it in place, it is necessary to avoid some complicated movements for some time, especially overloads. Be careful: when you are returned to the place of a bunch, you can not do this by rotating your arm back and forth - this will only aggravate the situation. In order for the ligament to be in place, it is necessary to set the upper head of the shoulder bone under the tendon.

Pain in the delta is a condition that can be caused by a variety of causes. Therefore, for diagnosis, it is necessary to take an X-ray of the shoulder and, if the cause is the displacement of the joint or ligament, contact an experienced manual therapist.