Torn labrum. Tell me sum good

[BigWin]

I had adhesive capsulitis ("frozen shoulder") where your joints literally freeze up. Surgery is putting you out then manually ripping the adhesions by manipulating the arm in the shoulder joint. I also have impingement and arthritis in the AC joint, which they can fix by cutting out the entire AC joint. I worked at pt to get range of motion back and learned to stop doing certain exercises that aggravate the impingement. I won't have surgery unless there is no alternative. I feel like my recovery has been pretty good. I have a small tear in my rotator cuff but nothing that needs surgical repair (yet). If you can skip the surgery, my 0.02 is to try a non-surgical route. Some stuff just needs to be fixed though. Talk to your ortho

I DID had my ac joint separated and the last 10 mm cut off my clavicle. Bone spurs and lot of arthritis. Yeah - it sucked balls. I wish I could have found a non-surgical route. I lived with it for a couple of years but it hurt too damn bad and my shoulder would slide out of socket doing push ups not to mention benching or OHP. I couldn't do a bench press more than 135 forever. Hotdog, I would def try and find a non-surgical route if your joint is stable enough to do incline or OH pressing if you don't have a full tear.

 

[hotdog23]

I'll update Monday when I get this other ortho to go over my arthrogram (MRI) and talk about surgery and other options. It's def stable to bench, just not much, I've bumped flat and incline DB press up to 15 reps, basically everything up to 15... I'll see what he says and talk to u guys again

 

[hotdog23]

Saw the worst ortho today. Old bastard couldn't read my arthrogram for shit so he referred me to someone else nx week. I did find out I have a severely hooked acromion, which is causing impingement and wearing on my supraspinatus muscle, which I have been having alotta pain with on/off forever. So may need surgery to shave or fix that regardless of what they decide to do with labrum. I'd just as soon have em both done at the same time. Good news, the quack thought it would be hard to make it any worse unless I was real stupid in the gym, so I'm still on my HST setup as the weights are fairly light the whole run through.

 

[BigWin]

Well I guess kinda good news then? I guess him not seeing much is better than him saying " good god I've never seen some shit this bad"! Hopefully next week you get more detailed info from someone more competent 'cause getting that arthrogram is a biznatch! At least you can still lift in the meantime to keep your sanity. I WILL say however that in my MRI and arthrogram they didn't see much other than a little labral tear until they opened my shoulder up and found all the other shit. Turned my 2 hr surgery into a 5 hr surgery. So even if you have that hook shaved down maybe while they're in there they'll explore around and find other stuff to fix. Guess it'll depend on how good your surgeon is. Mine ended up being pretty bad ass especially for a military doc. Let us know next week what they come up with

 

[hotdog23]

Lol ur right, he coulda given me a lot worse news. What do you think about cortisone shots? I almost got one

Anyway I think the guy I'm seein nx Wednesday is pretty legit, he's an athlete himself which makes me feel better, plus the old wore out doc was raving about his mad surg skillz. Hey but thanks for checkin in Bigwin always makes me feel better to hear from you guys that's been through it

 

[BigWin]

Lol ur right, he coulda given me a lot worse news. What do you think about cortisone shots? I almost got one

Anyway I think the guy I'm seein nx Wednesday is pretty legit, he's an athlete himself which makes me feel better, plus the old wore out doc was raving about his mad surg skillz. Hey but thanks for checkin in Bigwin always makes me feel better to hear from you guys that's been through it

I had one cortisone shot. It might have helped slightly for a short period. Not a huge difference, at least for me. I just basically saw it as a short term solution to a long term problem so I opted to then have the arthrogram done which confirmed it to be a bigger problem.