Separated shoulder.....fml

It seems this is the season for shoulder issues. I have an Ortho appt. tomorrow to check on mine. Already have an MRI my primary doctor ordered. Seems I have 1 ligament torn from the bone and 1 "thinned" whatever that means. Guess I'll find out more tomorrow.

 

Me too. I actually just sold my racebike last weekend. Thursday I go running around, messing with my 13 year old son and go splat and break my shoulder.

 

Lol, this is my story exactly. Was in the hospital for 10 days and came home, then the PT guy gives me some exercises to do saying "your shoulder can't get any worse"..........he was fucking wrong. Tried to lift myself in a funky way off of the couch (had broken hand on the same arm as the shoulder, as well as broken femur and foot on the other side of my body) using my elbows and I felt an intense pain and all of a sudden my shoulder was even worse than it was in the hospital.

To be honest, though, I really can't complain - if you would've told me that I'd have some issues doing straight benches/push-ups and everything else would be fine I would've taken that deal in a heartbeat.

 

It's been four weeks since my accident and two things are becoming apparent. I'm far more worried about my physical image then I realized and also I have less trust in doctors as I go to them. I get back pains every day because I still can't completely let this shoulder fall under it's own weight for long periods so I end up using back muscles to support it subconsciously. I have a follow up appointment in 2 more weeks but I might try and get these pics to him and speed it up. A month isn't really that long in the big picture but I'm worried the healing might not be correct and we will just be making an operation worse. My shoulder (to me of course) looks worse then most the ones I see on google and that says a lot! I am however in Florida and drove by some high speed chase after math last night with cars and cops littered everywhere.

 

Please note my progression into man hood with the .85 inch upper chest hair.

 

4 weeks in too and can't do too much with my arm yet. Completely don't trust doctors either and am wishing I went to see a specialist. Although the only thing I think they can do is wrap cables around it and anchor it down. Only thing I care is it's 100% strong as before for braking.

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Well it's been about 10 months since I separated my shoulder and I'm back to doing everything I used to do just at a lesser degree. Still can't doing any real heavy lifting at the gym but most of my daily and hobby activities aren't a problem. What does concern me is when I cook at this diner once a week after a few hours my shoulder starts aching really bad. Enough that I start holding it up when I can or resting it on something. I'm hoping its because I hadn't been to the gym since classes let out in the spring. Got me to wondering how everyone else is doing because if I remember a few other guys had the same injury about the same time.

 

Mine is still not back after 7 months. It's good except when I mountain bike and brake hard down hill. If I get over the bars, like when my stomach gets close to the bars and I'm trying to keep from going over the front I can feel it moving around inside.

I did crash on it mountain biking and held up good. It's that one movement I described above that it's still really weak, bad part is braking road racing is the same.

The surgeon said he did separate tie down techniques with the tendon from the cadaver so if I break one the other should hold. Belt and suspenders technique.

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I had a separated shoulder a couple of years ago. Oddly, now it mostly only hurts with handshakes lol