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| Anyone ever dislocated your shoulder?; This just keeps getting worse.... | |
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| OpticalIllusion | Mar 6 2008, 01:16 PM Post #16 |
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I have a friend who's randomly just pop's out all the time, she can rotate it herself and pop it back in. I dont know the trick, but maybe a doctor would know? That has to not only be painful but a royal pain in the a$$. |
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| SidesaddleRider | Mar 7 2008, 06:14 AM Post #17 |
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Is the meadow on fire?
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Thanks for the jingles, everyone! The shoulder is doing better, I'm taking care not to overtax it, and try to put it in a sling whenever I can. It's sort of a like a constant dull ache. I don't really want to take too much ibruprofen, because I think I'd use it more than I should then, since it doesn't hurt as much! <_< |
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| Magic | Mar 7 2008, 07:42 AM Post #18 |
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Thomas H. Cruise!
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Ibuprofen is important b/c its going to help decrease inflammation and promote healing at the injury site. I would keep up with it-- not for pain relief but to promote healing. Hope you are feeling better soon! |
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| Black Tack | Mar 7 2008, 08:38 AM Post #19 |
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Yes, I agree with Magic. The anti inflamatory properties will help with the healing. I have never had this happen (broken clavical twice but not dislocated shoulder thank goodness). It sure sounds horribly painful though, you guys. I had a student who's shoulder would pop out so easily though. Her horse would snatch at the bit and *pop*. But as some of you have said, she just figured out how to pop them back in. I think it hurt though
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| vxf111 | Mar 7 2008, 08:49 AM Post #20 |
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Hope you're feeling better soon!!!
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| Casey1 | Mar 7 2008, 10:10 AM Post #21 |
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Magical Leopluridon
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I have never dislocated my shoulder but I did my elbow. I hope for you shoulders are different. My elbow to this day (20+ years) still bothers me. Not in pain at all, I have no strength in my hand, I can not bend or straighten it all the way, and it pops out from time to time. I was told this was to be expected and that you are better off breaking a joint/bone because they can heal, dislocations don't really heal. I do remember it being a LONG time before I could follow my horse properly in the air over a jump. JINGLES!!! I hope you feel better very soon.
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| Heart River | Mar 7 2008, 01:10 PM Post #22 |
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Shunnnnn the unbeliever. Shunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
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Dislocated my left shoulder twice. The first time, it was no big deal - the EMTs popped it back in. The second time, it was a very big deal - not only did the shoulder dislocate, but basically all the tendons in the rotator cuff tore, and retracted back practically to my neck. Only some of them could be put back together. The whole thing is so unstable that I once had to tell the orthopedic guy to quit playing with it - he was marvelling at the ease with which he could pop it in and out. I think I don't even know that it's out half the time, because it's so loose it doesn't really pop or anything - it just slides. Other parts of the apparatus make it possible to kind of work around the disaster area - I can raise the arm over my head, which another ortho told me ought to be impossible, based on my MRI - but I have a kind of John McCain-like functionality - the arm goes up, but it takes nothing with it, no matter how light. An MRI might be a good idea, to see if you need a repair, but don't confuse the ability to diagnose with the ability to fix. And definitely take seriously the advice not to stress it - you could make a weakened tendon rip completely, and then you'd be ... just like me. |
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| SidesaddleRider | Mar 10 2008, 06:18 AM Post #23 |
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So, the left shoulder that I dislocated is doing very well. I have about 95% of previous range of motion, and it doesn't hurt at all except if I try to push it that last 5%. HOWEVER, in my attempts to make sure that I don't use/strain the left shoulder, I was using my right arm pretty much all the past week. (Including helping hubby haul in 6 new stall mats from the trailer to the barn aisle, stupid I know) And now, as a result, I've torn a muscle in my right shoulder!! And it hurts like a *$#(#!%*!&#$.... So bad at times that I feel like I want to . I can't wait to find out how long THIS is going to take to heal. <_< |
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| DairyQueen2049 | Mar 10 2008, 06:28 AM Post #24 |
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DRAGON BREATH. DRAGGIN' BUTT
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Devon - treat yourself as you would your horse with a muscle injury and REST THE DARN THING already. BOTH ARMS PLEASE!!Taxing it will only make worse, not better. Tough love speaking here - be hurt when you are hurt. Treat your body like you would a horse's - back off, quit the heavy stuff, wait for the healing or you only makes it worse.
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| SidesaddleRider | Mar 10 2008, 06:52 AM Post #25 |
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I know, I know... This looks like what I did to myself: http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/cyberthe...ltoidstrain.htm. And I'd put it at the Grade 3 level. Why is it I have no problem giving a horse all the time off that they need, but *I* can't stop?? |
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| SnackPack | Mar 10 2008, 07:35 AM Post #26 |
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Ouch, ouch, ouch. Compensation injuries are fairly common. We all try to keep up with our normal lives and then inevitably hurt something else while trying to protect the original injury.
I haven't technically 'dislocated' my shoulder (as in had it pop out of socket) but I did have a 'permanent dislocation' after I broke my arm. The arm had to be immobile for so long because the bone took forever to heal that the atrophy of all the shoulder muscles let everything drop out of socket. No one knew until I moved to physical therapy for my shoulder (after months of therapy on my hand, wrist and elbow). Lo and behold, my humerus was about 1 1/2" -2" out of the socket. I could grab my elbow and push everything up and down...you could see the bone move up into the socket and then I'd let go and it would drop again. Kinda of a cool party trick...if you aren't grossed out by that kind of stuff. Thankfully, there were no lateral stabilization issues because it wasn't from trauma...so basically strenghtening the muscles helped pull everything back to where it should be...and then some. I ended up with a frozen shoulder that I'm still working on. Be sure to give yourself time to heal. Shoulder dislocations can be plaguing if you don't give it enough time to strengthen. Look into PT. If you did a real good job on it, you may be looking at shoulder surgery at some point down the road.
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| naters | Mar 10 2008, 08:15 AM Post #27 |
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It'll be an adventure! We're going on an adventure!
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Lets see,,, my dad was in the Airborne, and had shoulder surgery many times for dislocating it. I think he did it a total of 31 times. It got so bad, and so loose it would just fall out of place, while putting a coat on, or something like that - even after the surgery sometimes. When we lived overseas, of course not wanting to go to a Greek hospital for surgery, it dislocated so many times, that my mother and I learned how to put it back into place with my dad laying on the ground, and a foot in his armpit (thanks to an army doctor that happened to see him for this in Germany). The Army is nuts sometimes... when he finally got back to the states, he had to ARGUE with them that he NEEDED shoulder surgery. Finally they relented and did it. When he woke up they told him that "yeah, you know you were right? Your shoulder was really messed up. It was so bad that right after you went to sleep and relaxed, your shoulder fell out of place on the operating table" Sheesh.
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| Karyn Z. | Mar 10 2008, 09:44 AM Post #28 |
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I Visited Candy Mountain and All I Got Was This Lousy Incision
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I had the whole "pop in pop out" thing going on as well. I had the surgery to tighten it up. It still aches alot. It makes sleeping difficult because I used to sleep with my head on my right elbow. I had surgery 12 years ago, and I still haven't found a comfortable sleep position. Sometimes I wish I hadn't had the surgery. There is a steady, crampy ache now, wheras before I would have moderate pain for a few weeks, interspersed with periods of little or no pain. My ortho said my bone was just rattling around in the socket. It would partially pop-out just by carrying a full water bucket. I was in the hospital for 3 or 4 days. Recovery from the surgery was a pain. Your arm is strapped to your side for a long time. I think my surgery was called a "Capsular Shift", where they wrap the muscle around something to tighten the thing up again. It sounds like the OP has a similiar situation where everything has torn/stretched beyong repair. I did get a husband out of it, but thats another story. |
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). I got hit by a drunk driver and they did so much damage to the soft tissues, that it dislocated, stayed in a dislocated position, and refused to heal in a proper position b/c the soft tissue was too weak to hold it in place. Years at physio and the gym strengthened the soft tissue.. enough to usually hold the shoulder in the wrong place. Otherwise, my shoulder blade sort of slips around freeform under my skin.. kinda creepy to see.






And it hurts like a *$#(#!%*!&#$....
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BOTH ARMS PLEASE!!


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