Oh, I get it. Yeah, it stinks when your bones start sawing away at your tendons. Well, that’s great. Hope you have a speedy and uneventful recovery!
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Oh, I get it. Yeah, it stinks when your bones start sawing away at your tendons. Well, that’s great. Hope you have a speedy and uneventful recovery![/QUOTE]
Well, the dogs certainly are enjoying having a full-time butler.
Glad to hear you are doing so well.
Yes, that is what my surgeon also said, he could not really tell me much until he was in there and then he would do whatever he could.
Glad he could help you and you didn’t need to have the rotary cuff reattachment part also, with the little anchors into the bone and all that.
The other repair, that is interesting, always something new and different, is it.
Glad that he took the time to explain this better.
Ice is your friend, it really is, as Zu-Zu told me many times and she was right, as always.
ICE ICE ICE ~ when in doubt & when not in doubt = ICE please and rest !
[B][I]ICE ICE ICE ~ everything in moderation except ICE ~
When in doubt = ICE
When not in doubt = ICE
Whenever sitting still = ICE
Never under=estimate the value/importance in ‘comfort’ & healing of ICE
No need to ask Bluey and I how :eek: ~ WE KNOW :lol::lol:[/I][/B]
I bought one of those nifty cold therapy machines so I can ice pretty much 24/7. It is a godsend and so worth the $$$.
OLD post but now I find myself with a possible tear or something is WRONG with rotator cuff. I just made an appointment with an ortho to be seen in a couple of weeks. I DON"T want surgery if I don’t have to. So I believe I did this to my shoulder back in Oct - so only just over a month ago.
I’ve been doing PT exercises at home with a light weight band that I connect to a door jam and my arm/shoulder feels better afterwards. I can lift it above my head with no pain, I can lift things with no pain but I can’t put my arm behind my back or have it stretched out and reach for something off to the side - that feels like someone has jabbed me with a knife! But I figure it would be worth to go and see someone to see how much damage has been done. I hate the UNKNOWING! I have read several articles that some people have just done PT therapy and pain was gone in time. This is an OLD injury I should add. The first time I injured it was probably 25 years ago. It healed on its own. Then about 9 years ago, I did it again and all I remember is that it took months to not have any pain. I did yoga and I couldn’t do half the exercises or had to just invent ways around it. Went years without ANY pain. Just did my own PT. This go around - I think I injured it at the gym doing flyes on the bench. Some days are worse than others. Ibuprofen helps. But I don’t push it as in doing stuff just because of the use of ibuprofen.
Riding my horse has been fine as long as I don’t over stretch the effect arm/shoulder. The pain doesn’t last long. It’s a SHARP knife life pain and then it goes away. I made the mistake of getting on (right arm is the bad one) and grabbing onto her mane to get on and OUCH!!! Can’t do that.
I"m praying I can get away without surgery because that’s the LAST thing I need in my life right now. Husband is getting a knee replacement in Dec and it’s just us 2 so we need someone who can do something here.
It’s winter so riding will soon end for the season but horses need to be fed and watered etc…
I just re-read my old replies on this thread. I hate to say it, but my shoulders are still a sh!tshow. One of them, I have re-injured multiple times. The other one decided to have a rotator cuff tear in sympathy, with no known cause. I have so many serious health problems going on that I will continue to ignore my shoulders. They have to stay far down the list of what I can address.
Rebecca
Shoulders are tricky. I fell and separated mine 2 years ago. The MRI showed a partially torn rotator. The surgeon said he could not say it happened during the fall as half of the over 50 patients have partial tears without known injury.
I did not have surgery for either as surgeon said outcome is the same for either way. I am a competitive archer and was able to start shooting 4 months after injury . It took about 6 months to get back to weight
I would seek out a shoulder specialist and consider getting 2 opinions
You should definitely get an MRI so you know what you’re dealing with. In the meantime, ice and NSAIDS.
I had a couple rotator cuff tears in my left shoulder. The MRI said one was high grade (> 70%) so I went with surgery. When he got in there (with a scope), the tear wasn’t as bad as it showed. He basically buffed out the tears down to good tissue. What was more problematic and what helped the most was relieving the pretty severe impingement I had. I sure some of it the result of my big boobs…which I later had reduced 
. I had minimal PT afterward which they let me do self directed and I returned to full function again.
Now (22 yrs later), I am not so sure I would jump to surgery that quick and would try to work through it with PT. I have had too many damned surgeries! I am currently dealing with 2 torn tendons in my hip. I had a round of PRP to them last week and am hoping that will do it’s thing and heal them up. Something seems to be working as I have been pretty sore but that is starting to resolve. PRP would be something else much less invasive to try depending on what is found.
Good luck.
Susan
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