Rotator cuff surgery

[shopmysongs]

Has anyone had rotator cuff surgery & what was the recovery time? I just got a MRI today & the Doc thinks I have a tear. I have an appt. Tues for her to read the MRI. I'm not looking forward to this at all. It has been the worse pain I ever experienced & I've had 2 kids. :bbcry:

[kgvettegirl]

I will ask RC tonight when he gets home. He had the surgery years before I ever met him and other than explaining the scars and offering to show me the tape of the surgery we havent really talked about it much. I know that they put you on your side with your arm tied up in the air.

[SerendipityCrafts]

My mother had it done but she was 80 or so at the time so I am sure her results wouldn't be the same as yours. :)

[WebLady]

I think my brother may have had something like this a while back ... or maybe is was suggested but didn't do it; I really don't remember, but it sounds familiar.

[kgvettegirl]

RC said it will take one year from surgery to complete healing with normal range of motion. Physical therapy afterwards is "***** **** *****" I couldn't type what he said.

[RevMatty]

Ouch!!! I've seen baseball players (especially pitchers) drop to their knee's and cry when they tear their's. Can't imagine the pain.

Hope all goes well with you.

[GuardianAngel]

I actually had a rotator cuff tear in Oct 04. I had gone to physical therapy for almost a year until I realized it just wasn't going to heal without the surgery. (I was too scared) Well I had the surgery June 06 and was so mad I didn't have it sooner.. Of course I couldn't move for a little while right after the surgery, I wore a sling for about a month or so. Then I was in physical therapy for another year and a half. Now I have full range of motion and sometimes I get pain but if I don't over work the arm I'm usually fine.. Of course with every surgery you have to understand it will not be 100% back to normal.. I think of it like a car.. You have a brand new one it works great you get in an accident it's never exactly the same but it still works. I wish you the best of luck.

[shopmysongs]

Went to the Doc's today & I have frozen shoulder & not a rotator cuff tear. No surgery but "intense, brutal thearpy". Those we're her words. She called it "Physical torchure". Not looking forward to it all.