My shoulder has been hurting for a few months, since I was “thrown” to the floor while playing basketball. Today I saw the second of two orthopedic surgeons (and one of the local experts; it’s the same clinic that treats the Phoenix Suns and ASU athletes) and he is emphatic that I need surgery.<\/p>\n
I have a complete “large” tear of the rotator cuff tendon. Left untreated it will probably degenerate to the point that it cannot be repaired,<\/p>\n
Ironically, he said it is not a new injury. The fall probably caused another minor sprain, but fortunately it brought me in to find this problem.<\/p>\n
For years I have been troubled by popping in my shoulder joint, and pain with some motions. That’s the rotator cuff problem.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t seem to have affected basketball play much, except that I can’t throw an overhead baseball-type pass. But I can shoot and dribble as well as I ever could. OK, I can shoot, but I dribble water from my mouth better than I dribble a basketball. I can’t blame this injury on that.<\/p>\n
So anyway, I have to schedule surgery. It will probably be a month out at least. I’ll update when it happens.<\/p>\n
He said it will be at least 4 months after surgery before I can begin to play ball again, and a year before I will be completely healed. I’m probably going to get fat and lazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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