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My left shoulder has bothered me for years, and has gotten progressively worse over the last 2 years. My initial trouble started with a weight lifting injury back in the 1999/2000 timeframe. Thanks to my manly hardheadedness I never bothered to go to a doctor. Over the last 2 years though, I had to give up (in this order): benching, pullups, dips, lat pulldowns, and the final straw was when I could no longer curl without shoulder pain. In addition, my left could no longer withstand prolonged bouts of heavy bag or speed bag.
Long story short, I got MRI results today and I have found out that I have 1) a bone spur sawing into my rotator cuff and 2) a torn labrum. Both of these are to be corrected with arthroscopic surgery June 27th.
I've decided to completely lay off the heavy bag, speed bag, and any other intense exercise before the surgery in the hopes of making a speedier recovery (I willl like take 3 months off after the surgery as well).
The MRI is pretty neat. They knew I had a bone spur from X-Rays, but with the MRI you can actually see it cutting into the rotator cuff. They can also see the torn labrum, which doesn't show up on x-ray, so that was a bit of a surprise (and an unpleasant one). I was really hoping it was nothing but the bone spur, which is a trivial deal. The extent of the labrum tear is such that this shouldn't be to big of a deal as well (at least that's what they tell me).
At any rate, any of you guys with shoulder pain need to get it checked out. Pain = something's not right and/or add'l damage being caused. If you've got health insurance... use it! That's what it's there for. I should have done this as soon as I started having prolonged pain.
Long story short, I got MRI results today and I have found out that I have 1) a bone spur sawing into my rotator cuff and 2) a torn labrum. Both of these are to be corrected with arthroscopic surgery June 27th.
I've decided to completely lay off the heavy bag, speed bag, and any other intense exercise before the surgery in the hopes of making a speedier recovery (I willl like take 3 months off after the surgery as well).
The MRI is pretty neat. They knew I had a bone spur from X-Rays, but with the MRI you can actually see it cutting into the rotator cuff. They can also see the torn labrum, which doesn't show up on x-ray, so that was a bit of a surprise (and an unpleasant one). I was really hoping it was nothing but the bone spur, which is a trivial deal. The extent of the labrum tear is such that this shouldn't be to big of a deal as well (at least that's what they tell me).
At any rate, any of you guys with shoulder pain need to get it checked out. Pain = something's not right and/or add'l damage being caused. If you've got health insurance... use it! That's what it's there for. I should have done this as soon as I started having prolonged pain.
Post me up on your therapy if you don't mind and we can get a 2 for 1 on your therapy.
You're young and healthy and will bounce back, just do what they tell you, you'll be fine.
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