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I'd like to give you hope but I had a very very minor rotator cuff injury following my crash, landed on shoulder same as you. It's been 7 months and I'm still in pain lying on it and lifting stuff. Shoulders are exceedingly slow to heal although surgery ironically may speed that up (more blood circulating). So best of luck and drain the bike before the op ready for next year ____________________ You win again, gravity! - Zap Brannigan, BCF BBQ 2016 |
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Shoulders are never right again I found the exercises did help, took a while though. |
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Dislocated my shoulder in a crash a few months ago, buggered up my rotator cuff as a result. 2 months of physio (thanks employer! I think its ironic/funny that working for the NHS, they will pay for me to go to a private physio clinic rather than NHS one ) later and it still hurts when I move it in certain ways or if I lie on it at night, and I cant put that arm behind my back without immense pain.
If it were me, Id opt for the surgery - anything to make this pain and annoyance go away. Worst case scenario if it doesnt work at least you get three weeks sick pay off work But as they say, gambling with other peoples money is easy. The problem is causing you grief at the moment, it wont get better by itself. Is there a chance if the surgery is unsuccessful that it actually makes the problem worse? Its not guaranteed to be successful but its better chances than doing nothing at all. |
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Posted: 17:39 - 15 Jun 2017 Post subject: Re: Shoulder rotator cuff tear, anyone? |
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Freddyfruitbat wrote: | Feeling very pissed off with life at the moment having just had the results of an MRI scan on my shoulder. This followed an shoulder-versus-boulder incident during an unscheduled dismount on my first-ever (and last) attempt at off-roading a couple of months ago.
I whacked my shoulder end-on when I hit the deck, and have had pain in it ever since, notably in bed at night and if I try to lift my arm. At least it doesn't curtail bike riding at all (on the black stuff!). Anyway the bone cruncher dude today tells me that my supraspinatus is completely ruptured, with retraction (ie it's pinged back up inside my shoulder), and he recommends trying to repair it. Chances of success are not great; it will mean a completely immobilised dominant shoulder/arm for three weeks followed by many months of painful physio (and unlikely to be able to ride at all) with no guarantee of success at the end of it.
Presumably this is a reasonably common biking injury, and so I wondered if anyone here's had experience of this? |
What has the surgeon/doctor said about the do nothing option, will your range of mobility decrease over time or will other muscles compensate?
17 years ago I broke and dislocated my left shoulder, although I didn't detach any muscles from bones, I did detach a large chunk off the top of my humerus, I had to wait over twelve hours before the surgery needed to pop everything back into place, which was long enough for the muscles to contract.
AIUI, if you have surgery to reattach the muscles, as you say, you will have a lot of recovering to do.
Once you've completed the physio, there is no, absolute, guarantee that the muscles will not simply contract again!
If your arm has to be immobilised after surgery for a long time, you'll also be faced with having to get that working again as well as your shoulder!
After, I think, six weeks in a sling my arm was less than useless, couldn't lift it at all, which is a weird enough sensation!
I'm afraid, as someone else has said, it will never be, absolutely, right again, even after surgery.
As I said, I did this 17 years ago, I still can't sleep on my left side, I can't prop myself up on my elbow, when lying down, without pain.
I've got 98% mobility, but if I was to be frog marched, with my left arm up my back, it would be absolute agony.
On the bright side though, you won't need a barometer to predict the weather, your shoulder will let you know when it's cold a damp!
Good luck! ____________________ "Everybody needs money, that's why they call it money!" |
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So. Just had the surgery on my shoulder, and feeling a bit sorry for myself as a result.
I ended up paying £250 to get a second opinion from another shoulder specialist; and (reassuringly I suppose) received exactly the same diagnosis and advice. Although I've been functioning pretty normally for the last few months, with very little pain and coping with the inability to raise my arm above shoulder height, they both reckoned that if I left it alone I'd have raging arthritis within a very few years, and would be needing a complete shoulder replacement, which I'm far too young for as they are crap and don't last very long.
Had keyhole surgery; I was told the innards of the joint were pretty comprehensively fucked; it wasn't possible to reattach the snapped tendon to the bone so the guy used a graft (made of skin harvested from a dead body ). The procedure is still all very much experimental, but seems there was nothing to lose by trying and maybe everything to gain. My right arm is now completely immobilised in a sling for 3 weeks; after that the fun will start with about 5 months of intensive, very painful rehab. Deep joy. Bike's now SORNed; God knows when I'll be back in the saddle ____________________ KC100->CB100N->CB250RS--------->DL650AL2->R1200RS->R1250RS |
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Eugh, this just makes me want to sell the R1, sell the track bike and crawl crawl back to my old hobbies for flying R/C planes and heli's...
Am getting old, old and risk adverse...
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Why am I more grossed out by animated videos than actual surgery ones. |
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damn, thread not for good reading. suspect I have the same, been sent for an ultrasound to confirm with the options of steroid injections, physio or surgery dependant on the severity... all this from having my arms in the air on a rollercoaster then getting bashed in the cart |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 319 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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