Had a good road trip to Birmingham. T'dawg is doing well with his physical therapy. I went with him to see the doc. He showed us a lot of pictures from the operation. The bones, rotator cuff and bicep tendon all looked good. Whoo hoo! The labrum was torn in two places. The doc ended up putting in 5 anchors (two for one tear and three for the other). And said he thought from the fraying, that part of the tear was an old injury. Likely dating back to his baseball days (4th grade?).
T'dawg said he was concerned, prior to surgery, that nothing would be discovered. He had a lot of pain. And he had tried therapy. But the MRI only indicated a small tear in an area that was not hurting. The doc said that the MRI was read incorrectly. But said that he goes more by what the patient says than the tests. Tests are a good tool. But nothing still compares to going in and actually looking around.
I had a similar experience with my shoulder. The test indicated bone spurs and arthritis. I did rehab but didn't get any pain relief. So I told the doc to go ahead and clean up the bone spurs. When he got in there, the rotator cuff was full torn! So, I didn't doubt T'dawg when he said it hurt bad enough for surgery (and possibly missing football).
Since he is young and in excellent health, he is healing quickly. He can start getting out of the brace and ease back into driving. No running nor arm weight lifting (legs are ok) for three months. And therapy will start getting intense.
It was tough to leave him again. But so good to see the smiling face and the good report from the doc.
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