 [ Symptoms ] 4 12 months ago i crashed my mountain bike on the trails i feel good but i still get oreness and frontal shoulder pain xray showed no breaks doctor said small chance of rotator cuff damage my arm was not extended since my health insurance covers crap i never gota mri i did therapy on my own i am pretty much pain free now i am ready to go back to hockey but when i shoot i feel some pain in the front of my shoulder this is the only motion where i fell any type of pain i would say i a sharp pain and it a tad bit of a sore feeling my shoudler defintly cracks every so often and i never had that before [ Disease ] sorry to hear you are going through this it sounds like you did a great job of rehabbing on your own though the shoulder is a very complex structure if in fact you did injure your rotator cuff it can take a long time to heal aggravating the injury through usage can make the process slower however it is possible the problem is not your rotator cuff at all there are structures called  bursae  in the shoulder too these are leathery sacs of fluid that help lubricate the joint it is possible to tear or otherwise injure a bursa sac around the shoulder which can lead to the type of symptoms you are describing or you could have injured a ligament like i said the structure of the shoulder is very complex whether it is your rotator cuff a bursa or a ligament the main healing factor is time obviously something about the puck shooting motion and force is aggravating your injury which may increase your healing time if the pain becomes chronic or you feel you have re injured the shoulder then it is clearly time to have the doctor look at it again after all your great work rehabbing the injury you do not want to now undo everything hope this helps