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Im sure surgery will go well, doc told me "my job is easy, ill be in and out in 30minutes, but your recovery is going to suck. 4-6 months no work, first month in immobilization sling, no movement. 2nd month pt person will move your arm forward and backwards and you dont help. 3rd month pt doc and you will begin to get a larger range of motion going on. 4th month rom will continue but they will start with a 2lb dumbbell and begin to work on getting stabilizer muscles back in shape. Then if everything goes well, you do as tour told, by month 7 it should be healed as well as it will ever heal and you can then begin to bring in weight slowly but listen to your body and dont get stupid and hurt it again by trying to power thru something that feels odd"
My right shoulder i believe had a slap tear from the millions of nails ive driven over the years but being self employed you just worked through it, plus i took winters off so i assume it sorta kinda healed a wee bit during off season. But to this day if i do alot of hand nailing (side job of siding a house for example) the pain comes roaring back and that shoulder will still lock up once in awhile....but doc renews my vicatin script every year so if i have to pop it back in, ill have a day or two of pain killers to get thru, and itll somewhat go back to the normal pain ive experienced for many many years.
Thats why my left shoulder suddenly shitting the bed last fall literally took me by complete suprise. Hope i dont regret this, our high school strength and conditioning coach blew his shoulder apart literally in a lifting competition last year and it took 3 surgeries to rebuild it with new parts. 7months after his last surgery and all that rehab hes making huge strides to get back to where he left off pre injury, so i got his pt gal lined up for me post op, we'll see how it goes. Prepaid gym membership ahead 4 months since pulling machine pins for leg work on machines will obviously be easier than possibly ruining "good" shoulder lifting big cookies one handed onto a squat bar lol.
But buddy that had the surgery said realistically, your going to hurt so bad that any exercise is going to kick your ass with pain no matter what or how you do it, he tried, said about week 5 was when he was able to get thru a half a normal workout at 1/4 of the weight he was used to slinging, and said the mental aspect is the hardest being handicapped by your own body and pain level...but it will get better. Hes worked back up to clean and jerking 285 already and got his squats back upto 445x7...so about 100lbs down from where he was..but still fantastic considering the almost yr hiatus
My right shoulder i believe had a slap tear from the millions of nails ive driven over the years but being self employed you just worked through it, plus i took winters off so i assume it sorta kinda healed a wee bit during off season. But to this day if i do alot of hand nailing (side job of siding a house for example) the pain comes roaring back and that shoulder will still lock up once in awhile....but doc renews my vicatin script every year so if i have to pop it back in, ill have a day or two of pain killers to get thru, and itll somewhat go back to the normal pain ive experienced for many many years.
Thats why my left shoulder suddenly shitting the bed last fall literally took me by complete suprise. Hope i dont regret this, our high school strength and conditioning coach blew his shoulder apart literally in a lifting competition last year and it took 3 surgeries to rebuild it with new parts. 7months after his last surgery and all that rehab hes making huge strides to get back to where he left off pre injury, so i got his pt gal lined up for me post op, we'll see how it goes. Prepaid gym membership ahead 4 months since pulling machine pins for leg work on machines will obviously be easier than possibly ruining "good" shoulder lifting big cookies one handed onto a squat bar lol.
But buddy that had the surgery said realistically, your going to hurt so bad that any exercise is going to kick your ass with pain no matter what or how you do it, he tried, said about week 5 was when he was able to get thru a half a normal workout at 1/4 of the weight he was used to slinging, and said the mental aspect is the hardest being handicapped by your own body and pain level...but it will get better. Hes worked back up to clean and jerking 285 already and got his squats back upto 445x7...so about 100lbs down from where he was..but still fantastic considering the almost yr hiatus