I'm 47, I trained most of my life in bodybuilding and power lifting (since age 13)... About 3.5 years ago, I had just finished a cycle and was at 230+ (5'9") super lean at ~ 8-9% bf...
I had a severe accident and shattered my right humerus in 7 places including the entire ball and tore my rotator cup...
Doc said I needed surgery to repair and a lot of physical therapy afterwards, but unfortunately I had just started a new job after being out of work for a few months and my insurance had a 30 day window before it kicked in...
Long story short, I could not afford the surgery so I let it heal on its own with no PT (150 a pop)!
Well, after my shoulder healed, but now I have what the docs have said is called frozen shoulder...I cannot lift my right arm above parallel to the ground...
I had given up on lifting ever again,but I couldn't take looking in the mirror anymore and I started working out a couple months...I'm making tremendous progress, but I'm limited as to what I can do in the gym. No incline bench, no shoulder work above the shoulders, etc...
Unfortunately my shoulder weakness is beginning to hold me back in other areas of training...
Any suggestions of how to free up the frozen shoulder?
It bums me out, I used to have monster bowling ball shoulders and I loved blasting them in the gym... :(
If anyone has advice, I'm all ears!
Thanks in advance,
Ernie

Parillo and Poloquin......the two gurus of power saved me from recurring stresses with simple warmups i saw "the old powerlifters" do. My current injury recovery....purely stupid. Hope you recover fast!

I currently have a partially torn labrum in my right shoulder and completely torn ucl in my left elbow. I pitched until I was 26 when the shoulder problems just became to much to over come. Had my third surgery on my shoulder the fix the labrum and remove a bad bone spur. Partially tore the labrum again during rehab. Been like that ever since. I rely heavily on resistance bands to get me warm and limbered up. Really doesn't cause me many issues, except for the occasional bursitis. My left elbow is a bit of a problem. It actually dislocates on me from time to time. Tore my ulnar culateral ligament and broke my humoral head a few years ago. I'm still able to bench around 400, but only use the smith machine on heavy days. Consistent range of motion is paramount for me, otherwise I can really set myself back physically. I've been unable to find any form of warming up that helps my elbow much to be honest.

I absolutely ALWAYS do RC warm-up/mobility work pre-workout on pretty much ALL my upper body days, especially before bench and back exercises. The rotator cuff muscles are such precarious instruments of design on us humans, lol.

I suffered a setback a few years ago because I was training like an asshole, starting all cold without warming up, heavy shit right from the rip. Big mistake...for the longest time I couldn't even sleep on my left side and/or raise my left arm to hang something up/reach for something without grimacing in pain. Now I have some lagging bursitis, I believe...due to the shoulder impingement that I luckily rehabbed myself thru after realizing what I had done, and what was going to happen if I didn't knock off the dumb shit!! Like a TORN RC!!...that REALLY would suck!!
Realized the error of my ways...now I warm-up and cycle my training, every week is different..weights/reps depending on body-part and what I did last week with that muscle group...best decision I ever made in my book.