Bigal33's Shoulder Surgery Journal!!!

[RyanGrob]

How's everyone else progressing?
Both Al's whats going on?
Ryan hows the weight room treating you? What are your lifts looking like?

Weight room is all good except bench/incline press. It's causing a lot of problems with my bicep tendon. I can push down where it hurts and have been unsuccessful thus far in fixing it. All my lifts are about 80% of what they used to be so that's exciting.

Good to hear everyone is healing up nicely.

[Mr. Manlet]

had my 2 week post op visit...got my stitches out and what not

doctor said shoulder looks good...but, i have another month until i start PT...wants me to do some exersices at home, huge bummer, thought i would have started within the nnext week. Guess i gotta stay positive

[BigDaddy33]

had my 2 week post op visit...got my stitches out and what not

doctor said shoulder looks good...but, i have another month until i start PT...wants me to do some exersices at home, huge bummer, thought i would have started within the nnext week. Guess i gotta stay positive

Definately stay positive. You'll get better, you sure don't want to try to push anything and injure it again. Hey, the stitches are out and the Doc said everything looks good, so you're doing fine. Do the exercises he says and when you start PT you may be ahead of the game..

[sheva]

I haven't posted on here for a while I got the go ahead yesterday from my physio to start training(I started on MOnday anyway as I knew it was coming *hangs head in shame* lol). I can only go really light right now i can only press 5kg dumbells well obviously i could do more with my ok shoulder(even though i dislocated that one about 5/6 years ago as well) but i don't want one being stronger than the other. I can barely front raise 2kg dumbells.

I had op to repair my broken and dislocated shoulder and also fractured my humerus on January 18th this year due to a grand mal seizure but I was told it would be August before I could get back into weights so a month quicker than I expected. I got my op on 1st February.

Just wanna say to everyone who may have had an op and feels like it is taking forever to heal keep your head up you'll get there eventually, I know its a slow, annoying process after busting your balls in the gym to come back to lifting lightweights but you'll get there.

All the best to everyone!!!!!!!

Michael

[Mr. Manlet]

Definately stay positive. You'll get better, you sure don't want to try to push anything and injure it again. Hey, the stitches are out and the Doc said everything looks good, so you're doing fine. Do the exercises he says and when you start PT you may be ahead of the game..

yea thanks bro..did light swimming in the pool, just enough to work on my ROM, felt awesome

[robmking]

I have a problem though, when I go to squat I can't move my arm back far enough to get under the bar properly, anyone know how to fix this?

Rodsey, I have the same problem still after my shoulder surgery. Can you move your arm back far enough now? I have lost 5 degrees ROM after my 2nd shoulder surgery in Jan. The Dr. told me I would. I still have a popping inside of it. I am so frustrated with it.

[Beef X]

hello all! just came out of the hospital. arm hurts like hell and im off the morphine. dont know what to do..wake up at night and cant move im on a lot of drugs but they dont seem to help. i start physio at the end of the month but its really hard to do many daily things.. cant sleep well, cant flex my elbow to eat, cant sit in a car, cant drive..etc. hope ur all doing well and healing up nicely

[Mr. Manlet]

hello all! just came out of the hospital. arm hurts like hell and im off the morphine. dont know what to do..wake up at night and cant move im on a lot of drugs but they dont seem to help. i start physio at the end of the month but its really hard to do many daily things.. cant sleep well, cant flex my elbow to eat, cant sit in a car, cant drive..etc. hope ur all doing well and healing up nicely

sounds like me for the fist couple of days...it will go away bro, hang in there

for me once the swelling went down, almost all the pain did as well..i still wake up though in discomfort and its been 2 weeks

[BigDaddy33]

hello all! just came out of the hospital. arm hurts like hell and im off the morphine. dont know what to do..wake up at night and cant move im on a lot of drugs but they dont seem to help. i start physio at the end of the month but its really hard to do many daily things.. cant sleep well, cant flex my elbow to eat, cant sit in a car, cant drive..etc. hope ur all doing well and healing up nicely

Hang in there buddy!!! You'll be find, just keep doing what the docs are telling you. It will get better!!!

[Al Swearengen]

7 months out from subacromial decompression, bone spur removal and a fixed tear in my supraspinatus and i'm back to lifting pain free and no more popping either. since my C5/6 cervical disc herniation in April i have had to back off from doing much lifting, but am back to flat BB benching 140x10 at this point and all feels good.
i am also able to military press front or BTN, upright rows are also fine and i'm currently able to do 3x8 body weight Dips. there is hope for anyone who must have surgery so don't let it get you down if it's not going well short term. i had 4 months of PT to endure and had pain and popping for almost 6 months to get here so don't give up. i also have 100% ROM due to putting up with all the stretching pain from my excellent PT who i hated at the time. lol

[BigDaddy33]

7 months out from subacromial decompression, bone spur removal and a fixed tear in my supraspinatus and i'm back to lifting pain free and no more popping either. since my C5/6 cervical disc herniation in April i have had to back off from doing much lifting, but am back to flat BB benching 140x10 at this point and all feels good.
i am also able to military press front or BTN, upright rows are also fine and i'm currently able to do 3x8 body weight Dips. there is hope for anyone who must have surgery so don't let it get you down if it's not going well short term. i had 4 months of PT to endure and had pain and popping for almost 6 months to get here so don't give up. i also have 100% ROM due to putting up with all the stretching pain from my excellent PT who i hated at the time. lol

Sounds great Al. I'm still getting slight pain and popping so I guess Im right on schedule. Hope to get backt to 100% rom also. I too did lots and lots of stretching and I continue to do it and I will probably always do it. Great to hear your doing good!!

[warbird00]

My shoulder has been hurting pretty bad for the last week I think i hit the wieghts to hard so gonna back it down to waht i did the first day cause i didint have any pain after that workout. Icing a lot after going to visit my friends for 3 days and couldnt ice

[BigDaddy33]

My shoulder has been hurting pretty bad for the last week I think i hit the wieghts to hard so gonna back it down to waht i did the first day cause i didint have any pain after that workout. Icing a lot after going to visit my friends for 3 days and couldnt ice

That blows donkey d&%K..... Better take a rest and see how it goes. Maybe lightin the weights a touch.. are you doing your stretchihng? very important. Hope it feels better soon bro, keep posted...

[ldmason]

Hi all,

Just an update. Had my scope on 6/6 and it turned out that it was torn. had a 40% tear in the shape of a horseshoe. No wonder it hurt!! He reattached it and cleaned up the collar bone area. Anyway it's been four weeks and it doesn't hurt anymore. I started PT 2 weeks after my surgery and things are progressing nicely and the ROM is improving. Doc told me it would be a 14 week recovery period. Anyway just wanted to give you guys an update and I'm glad everyone is doing great.

Lorri

[Mr. Manlet]

well...kinda depressing thing happend today..

Story:

Brother hadn't seen me for 2 weeks ( little after my surgery ), saw him today and he said my arm was noticeably smaller from 2-3 weeks ago. I got really angry and kinda self conscious, so i measured my arm.

Down 1 inch in little over 2 weeks

[warbird00]

well...kinda depressing thing happend today..

Story:

Brother hadn't seen me for 2 weeks ( little after my surgery ), saw him today and he said my arm was noticeably smaller from 2-3 weeks ago. I got really angry and kinda self conscious, so i measured my arm.

Down 1 inch in little over 2 weeks

dont worry about it man, my friends rip on me all day for being small (they used to call me the hulk, lol). Just remember that u will get back to that point, and concentrate on making ur legs tree trunks!

[Mr. Manlet]

dont worry about it man, my friends rip on me all day for being small (they used to call me the hulk, lol). Just remember that u will get back to that point, and concentrate on making ur legs tree trunks!

hell yea bro...just so depressing lol..

[BigDaddy33]

Hi all,

Just an update. Had my scope on 6/6 and it turned out that it was torn. had a 40% tear in the shape of a horseshoe. No wonder it hurt!! He reattached it and cleaned up the collar bone area. Anyway it's been four weeks and it doesn't hurt anymore. I started PT 2 weeks after my surgery and things are progressing nicely and the ROM is improving. Doc told me it would be a 14 week recovery period. Anyway just wanted to give you guys an update and I'm glad everyone is doing great.

Lorri

Glad to hear your recovery is going good. Make sure you do your stretches.

[BigDaddy33]

well...kinda depressing thing happend today..

Story:

Brother hadn't seen me for 2 weeks ( little after my surgery ), saw him today and he said my arm was noticeably smaller from 2-3 weeks ago. I got really angry and kinda self conscious, so i measured my arm.

Down 1 inch in little over 2 weeks

Muscle Memory is an amazing thing. Once you get back at it it will be no time before your arm gets bigger. Stay positive!!!

[warbird00]

been almost a week adn i think my shoulder is going back to normal again. No pain right now, but for the last week i had pain 24/7 like before surgery Been icing and stretching a lot and stopped lifting

[curt_james]

We now interrupt your regularly scheduled forum to announce the new and improved SMACKDOWN! That's right, Al versus Curt in a battle to the DEATH! Okay, not death. FITNESS! Now THAT is something worth fighting for!

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We're doing 1 point for 20 minutes of cardio. And five points for each workout.

Honor system.

We're going to post our running totals in the Battle Thread (link above). I believe I have a link to my workout journal in my sig. I might post my workouts in the battle thread, too.

WHICHEVER ANNOYS AL THE MOST!

AL IS GOIN' DOWN!!!!

[curt_james]

been almost a week adn i think my shoulder is going back to normal again. No pain right now, but for the last week i had pain 24/7 like before surgery Been icing and stretching a lot and stopped lifting

Glad to read your shoulder is going back to normal.

I'm no stranger to the ice. Wishing you a speedy and full recovery, War Bird!

[Al Swearengen]

been almost a week adn i think my shoulder is going back to normal again. No pain right now, but for the last week i had pain 24/7 like before surgery Been icing and stretching a lot and stopped lifting

you wont be able to just start lifting gung ho no matter how long you take off for rehab. point is you will have to start supper light, stay in higher rep ranges (15 or so) and keep frequency and volume low until it begins to adjust to it and add little by little from there. good luck dude

[BigDaddy33]

been almost a week adn i think my shoulder is going back to normal again. No pain right now, but for the last week i had pain 24/7 like before surgery Been icing and stretching a lot and stopped lifting

Im obviously no doc, but one of the things that has happened to me is my bicep tendon inflames. It sometimes makes everything else sore. Good job with the Ice and stretching. Try lifting light again and see what happens, if it hurts again call doc, maybe he can tell you why!! Good luck and keep posted!!

[Warrior18]

Ryan: 80% back to what you were lifting before, thats awesome man! Keep it up. I'm somewhere in the 50-65% of the weight I used 14 months ago. But I'm progressing.

lax28: Stay positive man, you're on the right track.

Al S: WOW, Body Weight DIPS!! Awesome bro. I can't imagine doing that yet. You've come a long way and I'm happy for you. Continue on with getting stronger my man.

Big AL: Seems you're doing well. GL with the competition w/Curt James. You guys will do well when you push eachother hard.

Warbird: Don't be discouraged bro. I didn't step foot in the weight room untill last week (15 weeks post op). It's possible that your shoulder is not entirely ready yet. I agree you should push it A BIT, but not to the point where you have lingering pain. Take it week by week (I still am), and slowly progress back into the weight room. I too am guilty of pushing it too hard. It's just the competitve edge and itch we have to get back to lifting. We'll get there tho, I promise you.


16 Weeks post OP today. Last Week was my first full week back into the weight room. As I mentioned, I'm lifting somewhere around 50-65% of the weight I used 14 months ago when I was at my peak before my shoulder injury.

The exercises that give me some diffuculty (no suprise to me): Flat DB chest Press, Incline DB chest press, military chest press. I'm taking it slow with these exercises. I feel like my chest can take on more weight but shoulder isn't quite ready for the high weight yet. I've been using 30 DB for flat press, and 25 DB for incline. It's pushing it a bit, but not to the point where I have pain (or pain after hours later), just small discomfort.

Overall its great to be lifting again. I'm eating more and more, trying to get back all the mass I lost. Ill keep you guys posted with how my recovery and training goes.

How's everyone else progressing?

[warbird00]

you wont be able to just start lifting gung ho no matter how long you take off for rehab. point is you will have to start supper light, stay in higher rep ranges (15 or so) and keep frequency and volume low until it begins to adjust to it and add little by little from there. good luck dude

i was doing super light but progressing a little each week, but must have raiased the weight too fast. Not like im lifting insane amounts of weight (doing 15-20 reps) but probably taxing myself too much

[trish123]

one of the things that has happened to me is my bicep tendon inflames.

Are you talking on the outside of the affected arm's bicep? Like running down between the shoulder and the elbow? I wondered what the hell that was.

[RyanGrob]

Are you talking on the outside of the affected arm's bicep? Like running down between the shoulder and the elbow? I wondered what the hell that was.

Yea, I'm taller which makes it a lot easier for my tendons to become inflamed (longer tendons, oh joy). It's being real quirky right now and seems to be the only thing holding me back. Pretty sure it started because I tried to go up in bench too fast :/

[nipomo]

my left shoulder is so bad, i can't lift at all without rubbing wd-40 into it. yeah. even then, tonite i could not do incline bench or incline flyes.

i've had rotator cuff problems with my right shoulder, but this was years ago playing ball. no surgery, just lots of PT.

does this sound like anything any of you guys went through?

i've had constant popping over the years, and i figure its time i go see the doc. any advice?

[The_Colonel]

my left shoulder is so bad, i can't lift at all without rubbing wd-40 into it. yeah. even then, tonite i could not do incline bench or incline flyes.

i've had rotator cuff problems with my right shoulder, but this was years ago playing ball. no surgery, just lots of PT.

does this sound like anything any of you guys went through?

i've had constant popping over the years, and i figure its time i go see the doc. any advice?

definitely go see an orthopod...