Quote:I didn’t realize that you were talking about a tear in your labrum until I looked up ‘SLAP tear’ on WebMD. 

 

I actually tore mine when I was throwing a bag of wet leaves into a lawn cart, I guess 6 or 7 years ago.  It hurt like hell and took me to my knees.  I ignored it for quite a while after it was diagnosed as a 25% tear of the labrum.  Of all things, what ‘reminded’ me of it the most, was when I was driving and turned my head to look backwards when I was backing up.  It felt like somebody was stabbing me in the shoulder.

 

I guess I went 6 months before I finally had the surgery on it.  By then it was about a 45% tear and just getting too painful to bear any longer.  Recuperation time was damn close to 9 months before I was back to normal.  I was glad I got it done though.  My left shoulder feels better than my ‘good shoulder’ now.  I was very good about doing all of my rehab, which I’m sure helped a lot.

Mine is almost unbearable when doing specific things that are pretty necessary so I imagine it's already bad. I'm doing PT and have an appointment with ortho Tuesday so we'll see what happens from there. I've read the rehab from surgery is pretty long. I had surgery on my right shoulder 5 years ago to attach my biceps tendon to another location after an accident. That rehab was no fun either. I'm glad yours went so well. 

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