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Anyone here riding after a TOTAL shoulder replacement? If so, what issues do you have with range of motion or durability of the hardware?
Thanks in advance.?
Thanks in advance.?
My Lawyer retired there and has several Dr.s in his building get them and prevented a knee replacement and tennis elbow surgury.
I am thinking about it for low back pain.
The Shop
A shoulder replacement isn't like a knee or hip. It isn't on the same level yet. My hip replacement does 100% of what a normal hip does, idem with my knee replacement. With a shoulder replacement you need to think that you will get about 65% to 75/80% of range back. Very important in getting that range back is fysio. The first weeks within the pain limit and then going through the wall of pain.
I've send the same message to Pierre-Alexandre (Pela) Renet he got also a shoulder replacement after his heavy crash in Dakar few years back.
Good luck with your procedure.
. The first 10-14 days were pure hell and no sleep (recliner) despite being on oxycodone. I even rented an ice machine that kept a steady supply of cold water on my shoulder. That worked better than drugs.
I'm going back in at the end of this month to the surgeon. I developed frozen shoulder last Dec but was fixed with 20 sessions of PT but now I have developed tendinitis that starts at my shoulder, runs down my bicep down to my wrist.
Shoulders take forever to heal properly due to the low blood supply to the area. I do have my full range of motion back. Its just the friggin constant tendinitis.
After the sheer hell of the two surgeries to fix my humerus I absolutely dread the thought of having to go through it again. Just thinking about it gives me anxiety. I know there are worse injuries and procedures but I can’t even imagine what they would be like.
Red Crawford you're so lucky to have full ROM. Everyone is different and many of us have previous damage if you've been riding/racing for any length of time.
IMO I achieved great results after surgery however no where near full ROM and putting muscle back on is difficult.
I still ride and race however there is fear. The surgeon advised against riding of course stating that repeating the injury would not allow enough material to repair.
Yikes.
I know , I didn't think they would work but had nothing to lose , so started taking them after reading good reviews, I didn't think they were working until my wife said I hadn't whinged about the pain.
It hasn't completely gone but it is hardly noticeable now .
Tumeric has worked miracles for me , I hope other people can get the same results.
But if you send him a email, he won't bite. Tell him a Belgium patient bragged about him on a internet board and named him a world authority. And that you look for someone as good in America, if possible as close by to California. If he knows somebody he trusts from his multiple international conventions he will give you a name.
Don't be scared to email other authorities on shoulder problems, like doc. Ryu but also the Edward V Craig from the Tria clinics. You don't buy the first car you see, so why should you swallow the first surgeon his story and get that surgery. After those mails you can decide if you meet hem in person.
I always do research and then trust my gut feeling, in picking the best surgeon. And knock on wood, I never got disappointed.
Pit Row
I got kicked yesterday on a double out of a corner, tried to ride it, but came up short. The nose dive impact i survived, but i rebounded and landed at the bottom of the landing..feet off, hands on the bars...and that impact dislocated my right shoulder for the first time.
The walk back to the and 5 minutes drive to the hospital was excruciating. My buddy tried to out it in, but couldn’t.
In a brace right now wondering when ill be riding again. The capsule is torn...and i wonder if i should get it repaired. Had the other one repaired 10 years ago..that was extremely painful...now reading your stories from entire shoulder replacements sounds even worse..
Mine looked like this, my surgeon got it back into a pretty good shape with only a slight imperfection. He keeps telling me how it was beyond fucked and he amazed himself that he was able to fix it. He just laughed when I asked how many pieces it was in and says he has no idea, just lots.
Did your humerus develop necrosis or was it just too mangled to repair?
However, anything less would be futile. My shoulder is bone on bone, and has been that way long enough to significantly deform the humerus. My rotator cuff is completely gone, nothing left at all. The bone on bone action has severed the tendon that attached the bicep to the shoulder. It has also worn more than 50% through 3 other tendons.
I'm definitely open to advise. My current thought is to have the surgery. Be an over achiever in P.T. Then strengthen my upper body as much as possible within my weight limits. Finally, learn how to crash W/O risking that shoulder. Then it'll just be trail riding and MTB.
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