Torn Rotator Cuff?

GoatLocker · 01-04-2011, 07:13 PM

I tore mine just before a deployment and I sucked it up until I returned 7 months later. By that time, the shoulder had frozen and I had very little range of motion. It took months of PT to get enough range back to do the repair. I'm not a doctor, not even on TV, but I'm thinking a 50% tear is probably still stronger than a repair. Do a lot of research and ask the orthopedic surgeon a lot of questions. Good luck. BTW, this is a very common injury for guys in their 40's...

01-04-2011, 07:13 PM	#10
GoatLocker Dr of Quantum Inebrionics Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Eric Location: Sandy Eggo Posts: 434 Trading: (1)	Re: Torn Rotator Cuff? I tore mine just before a deployment and I sucked it up until I returned 7 months later. By that time, the shoulder had frozen and I had very little range of motion. It took months of PT to get enough range back to do the repair. I'm not a doctor, not even on TV, but I'm thinking a 50% tear is probably still stronger than a repair. Do a lot of research and ask the orthopedic surgeon a lot of questions. Good luck. BTW, this is a very common injury for guys in their 40's... __________________ "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form." Winston Churchill