I have been weight lighting for ten plus years and playing hockey for almost twenty years now. Last year I had a grade 3 AC separation in my shoulder. My body hasn't been the same. I am about 190lbs and stand 5 feet 9 inches. My legs are huge from hockey and working out. My arms and chest are good size and I am in good shape again. I got back to working out and could do twenty pull ups under grip and 17 military overgrip in a single sitting. I usually break it down and do about 100 pull ups on back days. I was back to benching over 225lbs just doing reps of 3 to 6. I mostly was doing dumbbell presses regular, decline, butteryfly,and incline. I had no pains from working out at the gym. I went back to ice last week, and I have this sharp and excruciating pain in my lower neck to both of my shoulders. It really hurts to get around. I took a week off from everything phyiscal and properly stretched daily. I played hockey in a lower league just to fill in and the pain came back. My lower neck and upper back is killing me all the way to the back of my shoulder. Should I go see a doctor or just take a few week off from any type of athletic activities, and just gave beer league a try tonight as 11th guy with my beer league brothers. The pain came right back and it is really difficult to manage. It hurts me to give up the game I love. When I shoot the puck I can really feel it in my shoulder that I injured. I just don't know what to do. I think I need to take a few weeks off, and possibly give up hockey. The Ibprofen and ice just isn't working anymore. AFter that if the pain is there I guess I back back to the Orthopedic doctor.
The body reacts oddly to different things. A friend of mine was/is in a similar situation. He'd always played hockey, lifted very infrequently, then stopped both. Got back into lifting more than ever, got back into hockey, did both for a while, and developed some big shoulder issues realized when playing hockey. He stopped playing while continuing to lift, and the problem went away. Got back to playing and it came right back.
Meanwhile, I've never had such issues and I completely wreck it when I lift. When I stopped playing hockey so long ago, I got into bodybuilding & powerlifting, now I'm older and play hockey again (more than ever, at that). While I'm not much into getting gigantic anymore I still go pretty hard and heavy, and THANKFULLY nothing has ever been an issue joint-wise.
I wish I had something helpful to say other than it's probably not as uncommon as you might think, even though that's not really helpful overall.
As far as recent frustrations from me:
One team lost in the opening round of playoffs, should have been a walk. We didn't come mentally prepared to have a really grinding game and ended up losing in a shootout. Everyone else was more upset than I was about it (I don't like to complain about things I can't prove otherwise because it makes me feel like a chump), but in my shootout attempt the goalie moved the net back and I ended up hitting the front of the crossbar. I expect it would've gone bar down or just tucked behind the bar, which was the plan on a quick deke, but we'll never know. Anyway, that would have been the winner as well
You just can't make it up. We should have blasted that team anyway. I see they advanced yet again to the finals though, and will now play the down-a-level-or-two team that only has 1 loss (from us!) - I actually hope they upset them, too, because the team that plays down has a few chumps I can't stand. At least the others are all class acts.
My other team, I had a goal called back early in the game and then as usual nothing else went my way. Thankfully it didn't matter because we won by a few, but that kind of luck has been sticking with me lately as you can see. I like to stick to my passing game at that point, but my wingers just can't score. I must have given at least 4 breakaway/fully open passes in that game and not a single one went in (most if not all were to our top scorers, too). I even blocked a puck w/my arm, gave a no-look behind-the-back pass through 2 of their guys who crashed down on me, and hit my guy coming out of the box toward the end of the game. Breakaway aaaaand no goal
Again, we won anyway, but if that luck carries over to our next couple games against the league's best teams we're screwed.