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04-18-12, 02:20 AM
Anyone with experience on something like this?
I bailed on a jump on my mtb feb. 26, had surgery march 7. I hit really hard, I'm 6'5" and weighed 215lbs at the time, broke my helmet in 2 places and had a lot of road rash on my shoulder from where I hit the dirt/rocks that delayed the surgery for fear of infection when opening me up. I broke it in 4 places with floating fragments and had a large plate and bone graft to glue it back together.
I have occasional achy feeling in area of the surgery but my main issue is range of motion and my ortho seems pretty sure I have a torn subscapularis. He did an ultrasound of my shoulder. I've had 2 weeks of PT and he wants me to do 3 more before ordering an MRI to be certain and consider another surgery at that time.
Should I seek a 2nd opinion or is this par for the course? I'm about 7 weeks post op and have quite a bit of pain moving my shoulder forward or inward at all, mostly in the upper bicep.
Getting sick of having a useless arm and not being able to ride because I can't reach forward, can't even drive my manual mustang cobra because I can't shift it, lol!
I bailed on a jump on my mtb feb. 26, had surgery march 7. I hit really hard, I'm 6'5" and weighed 215lbs at the time, broke my helmet in 2 places and had a lot of road rash on my shoulder from where I hit the dirt/rocks that delayed the surgery for fear of infection when opening me up. I broke it in 4 places with floating fragments and had a large plate and bone graft to glue it back together.
I have occasional achy feeling in area of the surgery but my main issue is range of motion and my ortho seems pretty sure I have a torn subscapularis. He did an ultrasound of my shoulder. I've had 2 weeks of PT and he wants me to do 3 more before ordering an MRI to be certain and consider another surgery at that time.
Should I seek a 2nd opinion or is this par for the course? I'm about 7 weeks post op and have quite a bit of pain moving my shoulder forward or inward at all, mostly in the upper bicep.
Getting sick of having a useless arm and not being able to ride because I can't reach forward, can't even drive my manual mustang cobra because I can't shift it, lol!