Do you have any experience with a torn shoulder tendon?

Well Dwight Howard the NBA center had a torn labrum and he was still able to play the position for the year…

He had the injury and then played the remainder of the season which was about 3 months? So there’s that..

Excuse my ignorance but where is the labrum located?

Here is a site scroll down a bit to the middle

Thank you White Tigress, I’ve learned something new today.

How interesting. Is she in pain? Have you talked to the doctor yet? Will she need PT? Or do you not yet know and that’s why you’re asking? :)

I broke my scapula. I got in a biking accident and was sore, but I didn’t know until the next day when it separated during jazzercise that my injury was very bad. Ouch. I couldn’t really use my arm for weeks. Putting my arm in a sling helped a bit, mostly to remind me not to use it. I couldn’t dress myself for a few days until I got the hang of doing everything one handed. I had to learn to wipe myself with the alternate hand.

Your daughter’s injury sounds very different than mine.

@Cupcake She has intermittent pain, she lives overseas but is visiting NZ for a few days, I only heard about it a couple of days ago. She didn’t really know what had happened because there was no immediate pain and she had no awareness of any injury taking place at the time. She didn’t see a doctor for weeks but as I mentioned above, she has had a scan and a torn tendon has been diagnosed. I think she has plans to see a physio when she gets back to Melbourne. I simply wanted to know if anyone had experienced a similar injury and how long it had taken to repair itself, I have heard it can take as long as 12 months.

I tore a tendon near my right shoulder. It was inflamed and I had a limited range of motion. It was an overuse injury that finally gave way.

I had diffuculty assessing my pain level because I had been tolerating increasing pain in that area for so long.

It took me somewhere near a year and half for it to feel normal. But I was a smoker at the time which slows healing my pt was ineffective more agravating then healing the ultrasound stuff and massage. I wasn’t really great about the exercises and I continued to do all the wrong stuff for my body. Not being aware and continuing to use the arm as my dominant arm.. I.e. carrying and lifting things.

I was on muscle relaxers and antiinflammatories instead of learning to strengthen surrounding muscle groups. Numbing the pain by increasing levels of these meds itself can be more dangerous if that is all one does.

I finally got serious and off the meds when the rest of my body got sick. I started building the muscle groups in my back and shoulder and that worked out fairly well. Along with nutrition and supplements I still have days where I get tight or overuse the arm, carryign heay objects away from my core, spending time on a computer with bad posture or sleep on it wrong where it will get tight and achy several years later. But these are the exceptions not the rule and if I catch them quickly I can take measures to counter act them. Amino acids are particulary importent in my opinion.

My lesson is one has take responsibility for their own healing process or it will be an ongoing issue.

Wishing your daughter the best.

@Unbroken Many thanks for your story, it was interesting and useful to read about your experience, thank you for your honesty, I shall pass everything on to my daughter. I completely agree about taking responsibility for your own healing process, it’s not just going to happen on its own, it takes cooperation with the body’s own process of healing, not doing things that interfere with it.