[Closed] Detached tendons in my shoulder. What can I look forward to?

Over the last six months I've gone from a torn rotator cuff to a frozen shoulder.

I can't offer anything more concrete than sympathy for your situation, I'm afraid, it's no fun having a knackered shoulder.

You can look forward to many more dislocations unfortunately. After 4, and no sign of an op on the NHS, I finally got fed up and used the private scheme at work to get a bankart repair done, shoulder is great now*

*there is a vast range of different ways in which shoulders can be damaged, yours may be completely different to mine, but sounds the same.

Nobeerinthefridge - Member
You can look forward to many more dislocations unfortunately.

I'm hoping that never again diving from 12ft up will be enough to keep my shoulder in place in the future.

Dislocated mine as amid but thankfully I don't think I snapped any tendons as it only popped out a few times afterwards.
As for the other shoulder having too torn two of my rotator cuff tendons and also developed a bloody frozen shoulder on the back of it and battling through my own physio now (as the NHS service has been woefully inadequate but I can't afford private every week- I had a couple of months of weekly private before NHS kicked in).
An operation/repair in my opinion may be better anyway as if there's any capsulisation then they can break that down whilst you're under general as it hurts like hell doing it awake with no pain relief!
One other word of advice is look after the other shoulder and keep that moving as best you can as the inactivity also started to cause that one to freeze as well!!!

Suggsey - I'm booked in to have a manipulation under general (which basically seems to be waving your arm round to full limit of movement to break up all the scar tissue etc whilst you can't scream in pain) in a couple of weeks, I'm hoping it sorts it out as I found the stretches were just too painful to do with enough movement to make a difference.

Apparently 20% of people who get a frozen shoulder get one on the other side before the first one heals so it's important to do all the stretches on both sides.

After 6 months the constant pain and broken nights sleep are really getting me down tbh.

Let me tell you under general is the way to do it.....I stretched mine twice accidentally catching stuff before it hit the floor without thinking.....first the big wooden chopping board...pain kicked in as I caught it then dropped it the last six inches before nearly passing out, the second catching the sat nav when it decided to pop off the windscreen......
I am lucky to have a higher than normal pain threshold and it has helped with the stretches and have been having to do balanced stretches to avoid the other shoulder becoming frozen and unstable.....I don't know yet if it's biking specific or previous injury but my thoracic spine area is very unstable and the muscles in that area need reactibpvating which I'm also working on.....so OP another area to keep moving (there's some specific exercises which are reasonably shoulder gentle for your back.....fast healing fellas!

I fell off my bike and landed straight onto my frozen shoulder a couple of weeks back. There was quite a lot of laying on the ground wimpering before I could get up again.

I've done the instinctive snatch my arm away from something sharp/hot a few times and regretted it.

I've got scoliosis too which hasn't helped with muscles sorting themselves out.

Hope the stretches and muscle work begin to have results for you

Must admit I've avoided proper challenging terrain or obstacles until the strengths back as a small ditch snatched the bars out my weaker arm.....ill get there, bit like my climbing, slowly slowly catchy monkey

When I snapped my biceps tendon off, it had to be re-attached within 4 weeks, or not at all

Interesting, my missus snapped her bicep tendon and it was only diagnosed and fixed months later, no 4 week limit.

To the op, sounds like surgery lies ahead, then a good load of physio (I am not a doctor)

I have found this shoulder support gives me a whole lot more confidence.

I wore it before my op, as my shoulder kept dislocating, even when I sneezed once!

Op on the Bankart, and quite a few physio sessions later, it feels much better. I do still wear this though.

http://www.dirtbikebitz.com/evs-adult-sb04-shoulder-support-black-xxlarge-p-54507.html?gclid=CIjUjbrSxsgCFSkGwwodELUP1Q&utm_campaign=products&utm_medium=BaseFeed1&utm_source=GoogleBase1

I feel your pain.
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Interesting, my missus snapped her bicep tendon and it was only diagnosed and fixed months later, no 4 week limit.

Hmmm, definitely what the surgeon told me - maybe it was a slightly different injury

Thanks for all the replies folks.
It sounds like some of you are having/have had a far worse time than me.
Running a bike shop single-handed and spending 5+ hours a day doing repairs seems to have been quite beneficial.
Three weeks ago when I found I could raise my right arm over my head for the first time I got a bit carried away and did it a couple more times. Cue twanging sensation, big pain in my shoulder and a numb forearm for an hour after.
A couple of weeks ago I started sleeping better, although 5 hours without waking still appears to be the limit.

Interesting, my missus snapped her bicep tendon and it was only diagnosed and fixed months later

How did she not notice for so long?

Doesn't the Bicep curl right up and form a big lump at one end?

They were well aware her shoulder was ****ed, but it was only after a lot of physio with no improvement that they had a look with ultrasound as the original x-ray hadn't shown much (apart from a torn A-C joint iirc).

She had more movement than she should've as she was a kayaking instructor at the time (the injury was from biking though) and was able to do a lot of compensating with other muscles. All the compensating meant she was also starting to grown extra bone around parts of the shoulder, so that had to be shaved back off too.

Maybe the lump is only obvious in big lifters eg you can see it pop and curl up in this video. Credit to the guy for finishing the lift!

Might be, they found it when the tendon just disappeared when following it down her arm - not ideal

My bicep recoiled into a big ball and then went all floppy the next day. I could still tense it, but it just retracted up my arm which was a weird sensation

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