In some cases when the arm is on the way down you try and drop it quickly to minimise the pain. The pain should come on at around 40 to 60 gegrees and disappear at around 120 degrees. The more difficult part is which part of your shoulder is causing your grief. Welcome, this is an easy one, you have a 'painful arc syndrome'. Unfortunately, I cannot afford to see a doctor right now so I will likely just let it be for a while and see what happens but in the meantime, I was hoping someone may have some clue as to what might be wrong. Finally, the last and maybe the best way I can describe the pain is that it also feels as though there is a tightening sensation or as if my arm is being somewhat painfully pushed down from above.ДЄfter reading through many of the posts on this forum I did not come across any similar descriptions and the fact that I can lift my arm up to the side and over my head completely pain-free leads me to believe it is not a RC injury. In addition, the pain is pretty localized to the front part of my shoulder, starting from my upper-bicep at it's lowest point on the arm and traveling up to and throughout most of my deltoid. The pain itself is not sharp or unbearable, more of a annoying dull/deep pain that gives me the feeling that something is just not right.

Also, it intensifies a bit if I rotate my wrist and forearm away from my body but decreases when them turning inward. However, if I follow the same plane of motion on the way back down, the pain kicks back in at the same point/angle. The pain only occurs when I lift my arm forward and out in front of me and doesn't 'kick-in' until my arm is at about a 60-70 degree angle away from my body, but goes away if I continue to lift my arm higher past the initial point of pain. I can move my arm straight out to the side and up over my head without pain and with the same range of motion as my 'good' arm. Specifically, I have zero pain in my shoulder when my arm is at my side or I press on my shoulder. Although I have never had shoulder problems before, I regularly lift weights and had worked out my shoulders two days prior yet felt no pain or anything out of the ordinary. I assumed I just slept on it the wrong way and that the pain would subside rather quickly, but it got progressively worse as the day wore on and has not improved throughout the week. I went to sleep last Sunday night and woke up with an aching left shoulder on Monday morning.

My shoulder hurts when ilift