Earlier this year I tore my rotator cuff. I enjoy being active and found this particular injury unbelievably frustrating. Okay, I shouldn’t have lifted the desk without some help but I’m fairly impatient and have done things like this loads of time before without any problem.
I felt a pop in my shoulder and that was the start of months of misery leading up to surgery, only to find that I could still be looking at months before I got my shoulder working again and even then I wasn’t being promised a full recovery.
First, let’s rewind a bit. I’m fairly fit, I run, I go to the gym a couple of times a week and I lead a fairly active life. What I succeeded in doing on that perfectly ordinary day was tear one of the muscles in my rotator cuff. As a result of the tear it became inflamed and as a result of the inflammation I ended up with a shoulder impingement. To be precise, my supraspinatus muscle was getting pinched by the acromion which is part of my collar bone. Each time the muscle got pinched it became more inflamed, each extra bit of inflammation meant that it was getting pinched more. It’s a vicious circle and the only way out of it in my case was surgery.
The aim was to shave a piece of bone off of my collar bone to free up the shoulder impingement so that the muscle could heal. Fairly straight forward, the procedure takes about twenty minutes and you are out of hospital the same day.
So that’s what was done and while they were in there they decided to tidy up a torn cartilage for me at the same time. (I had agreed to this in advance) The result was that I came out of hospital with a very sore shoulder.
The road to recovery started with three weeks of rest. During that three weeks I had to keep my shoulder moving with passive exercises and let the bruising and inflammation from the operation heal. I was fine with this, what worried me was the news that recovery could take anything up to eighteen months and might only result in an 80% recovery.
So while I was resting for the first three weeks I checked out shoulder injuries and shoulder exercises on the internet and discovered that physical therapy features in the recovery of nearly all shoulder injuries to some extent.
I decided to start shoulder exercises just as soon as I could and now find myself ten weeks on from surgery with a shoulder that seems to be as good as new. The secret was in the type of exercise. It is important not to do anything that causes pain. This was not a frozen shoulder but a shoulder that had been operated on and the types of exercise were completely different for the two conditions.
Like I said, most shoulder injuries need some form of shoulder exercise to get fixed. Just make sure that it is the right sort of exercise and you’ll be surprised at how quickly it can get things moving again.
Physiotherapy and exercise are recognised as the best treatment for the majority of shoulder injuries but failing to use a structured exercise programme can cause more harm than good. Check out these <a rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank” href=”â??exercise”>http://shoulder-therapy-exercises.blogspot.com/â??”>exercise courses designed by professional qualified physiotherapists. Find out how a fellow shoulder injury sufferer recovered from surgery in record time
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