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I had surgery on my shoulder to repair a torn labrum and I re-dislocated it exactly one year after surgery. Went back for another MRI and the doctor said nothing was torn. Has anyone else had this surgery? Is this normal? I love riding and wish I could but just normal riding makes my shoulder feel unstable.
Had my right AC Joint separated, surgery / graph to repair damage 1989 (hold Collarbone down). No problem since.
Check into doing as many different shoulder strengthening exercises as you can in moderation. Increase overall shoulder strength to help keep everything in place...
Also look into one of the Shoulder braces offered by 661 and EVS....
JG.
The Shop
That was in 99' & it been good, even though I have a few good get offs, including one that put me the ICU for five on a ventilator & left the other shoulder with a 2 degree separation.
Just get it fixed & do the physical therapy & you should be good to go!
How long was your shoulder dislocated?
arthroscopic procedure
Damn, I'm not a girl, but I bet that really hurt.
The Laterjet utilizes a bone block and an extra ligament. They basically cut off a piece of bone from another area in your shoulder where it isn't needed. Then they screw it in just outside the shoulder socket. It basically uses bone to block the arm from slipping out. They also take a ligament that is also in your shoulder, that my surgeon said is basically a spare and serves no purpose, and reattach it to the arm and shoulder socket. This keeps tension pulling the arm in to socket, the same way tie-down keep tension on a bike. So, between the new ligament and the bone block, you're pretty much cured from dislocating it again from normal activity.
After two other total downer ortho docs had checked out my shoulder and told me it was pretty much hosed and that I should give up riding after they wanted to do what's called a Bankhart procedure. Dr Almquist had said "that procedure is archaic and wouldn't hold up for me and that he'd fix it better than new and I'd be back on a bike and riding in no time. That dude was the best ortho doc I've ever seen and his up beat prognosis was dead on. Since that surgery, I've even seperated that same shoulder and banged it up multiple times and it's never dislocated again or given me any issues.
I do remember him telling me that if it did ever pop out that it'd be a real pain in the ass to get it back into place with normal manipulation as that piece of bone that was screwed into that area would also try to block it from popping back into place. I believe this fix is also referred to as a Bristow procedure.
Good luck with yours!
I have only ever seen the bristow-latarjet done when there is some bone loss from the front of your glenoid. This can happen when some bone is pulled off the glenoid from the bankhart lesion or if the guy has dislocated the shoulder a lot and worn down the bone of the glenoid. If there is no bone loss and the labrum is torn in the area of the glenoid we are discussing it is called a bankhart lesion and they just do a simple bankhart repair.
Bankhart repairs are at least a 100 times more common and just involves reattaching the torn section of the labrum using suture which are then usually attached to one or more suture anchors. If the joint was loose and bankhart lesion wasn't found they usually just do a capsular shrinkage (with rf wand or a plication with suture to capture the capsule & labrum to shift the capsule and tighten it up.
Hope that helps clear some of this up for you guys!
Pit Row
Not to be a name dropper as I'm definitely not any kind of insider, but ,Goat Breker had noticed that I had been running around in an arm sling at Perris and he told me he'd have George Holland call me so that he could tell me which shoulder doc was the best from his experiences. I gave Goat my work number and figured it was a fat chance that I'd be hearing from Mr. Holland. The following week I was pretty shocked when George actually called me at work and we talked shoulders and he told me to go check out Dr. Almquist.
Thought I'd mention this just to show what a cool guy George Holland must be!
Google him, you'll be amazed. He's been the ortho surgeon for all of the pro sports teams in Houston, written books on the shoulder, etc. etc. He's the man
Man UP josh!!
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