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Too bad it still sucks. I guess it will keep happening again over time. I can barely touch the small of my back with my right arm. Can't even raise it over my head fully.
I was in a market a week ago, had turned to point something out to my partner, and when I turned around I caught my arm on an end cap thing and it triggered the torn and frayed tendons in my shoulder, especially the big one under the scapula. I went white as a sheet and my partner had to grab me because she thought I was going to pass out and or throw up.
I'm really good with pain, but that was easily amongst the worst pain I've ever felt. Right up there with my spine when my truck was blown in half in Iraq. Insanity.
Here's hoping it's an easy fix surgically.
Yay getting old I guess?
DannySmulevitz
I've had the procedure on both shoulders. Do it as soon as possible. Overnight relief.
Beersapper
Just put it in the microwave on high for 27 minutes.
TrumpRapesChildren
Doctors hate this one trick!
whoabelly
MUA?
TrumpRapesChildren
Yeah I think so. So they can force the joint through the damaged tissue. You'd think that would just make more scar tissue. And I'm not sure what it's supposed to do for frayed and partially torn tendons but I'm 100% not a doctor so idk LMAO
whoabelly
Best of luck
whoabelly
I speak from opposite survivor's bias having worked in a pain clinic. I have only heard one MUA with continuous pain but they also had a lot of joint pain in general. But even they did say it helped.
CheCazzoDici
My dad had that, said the surgery was the best thing he ever did. Hope yours goes as well as his did and you have a speedy recovery!
TrumpRapesChildren
I hope so, and thank you!
sloomoo
Sissy got what they called a "manipulation" where they knocked her out and physically moved her arm around. Then (more) physical therapy. Took a day for the numb to wear off. She said that first therapy session was intense. Got her range of motion back, tho.
TrumpRapesChildren
That's what they want to do to me.
sloomoo
She had no pain for about 24 hours after the procedure, they did a nerve block on her. Then the block faded....and the vicodin/codone painkillers give her unpleasant side-effects. She was quite sore at first, but toughing out the therapy and doing the home exercises brought pretty quick results. Do the home exercises!
LessYackinMoreCrackin
Sounds like a tear of your subscapularis muscle (but I'd also bet supraspinatus is damaged too.) So a rotator cuff tear basically. Frozen shoulder (AKA Adhesive capsulitis) is a more slow onset gradual loss of range of motion, not usually caused by acute trauma. Start doing prehab that doesn't aggravate the shoulder to make post surgical rehab quicker/easier/more effective.
TrumpRapesChildren
Who are you, so wise in the ways of whatever is wrong with my shoulder lol I do towel stretches, I lean over and do rotating circles with the shoulder, cross chest stretches , stuff like that. But holy smokes it's incredibly painful when I try to push past. And when I do push past it burn aches for several minutes afterwards like pliers squeezing hard then releasing suddenly.
LessYackinMoreCrackin
I am a chiropractor, and regularly treat joint conditions of all stripes for every joint in the body. I would not give you specific stretches/exercises unless I was the one who had done the exam (to see how far you could go, what ortho tests light you up, what muscles aren't on fire) and taken a sharp look at the MRI. For now, rest/sling, ice, NSAIDs might be the best course of action, but listen to the doc who ordered the MRI.
TrumpRapesChildren
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oldguyexlurker
Ortho said frozen shoukder was one of the most painful things they see. Just before prescribing me a regimen of stretching and physical therapy designed to push it PAST the pain. It worked. But was not particularly pleasant. Still get an occasional twinge, but NOTHING like it was. No surgery.
TrumpRapesChildren
They had me in PT for a while but I did all their stretches and for some reason despite all of the pain, I lost a bunch more mobility. It's easily a 7-8/10 on the pain scale when we get to the point that it just can't move any further, like it hits a wall. The big tendon under the scapula is super inflamed and frayed. One behind the bicep or something of the sort is also super frayed.
oldguyexlurker
Ah. Mine were supposedly not "frayed" just inflamed to the point it jammed up the joint. But yeah the pain is a real thing. Two bulged discs in lower back that inflamed was the only thing I can recall worse. (Oh, and briefly an arterial blood draw at my wrist. They ever try that again and someone is getting punched.) Sorry about the surgery need. Good luck!
TrumpRapesChildren
Yo u feel the spine pain. My L3 and L4 were fused in an explosion when my truck was blown in half in Iraq lol that's singlehandedly the worst pain I've ever experienced and I've had a tooth extracted in Iraq without the injectable numbing stuff.