Probably going to need surgery for my right shoulder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN3sMU30pKo
1) Started having shoulder stiffness and muscle spasms
2) Shoulder felt increasingly unstable. No matter how I let it rest, it always felt 'off'
3) If I relax my shoulder, my arm will slide out of socket about 1/2 inch. Doesn't hurt.
4) Doesn't hurt to push it back in socket.
5) If I try and throw a ball, my arm feels like it will fall off and the only thing keeping attached is skin and muscle..
6) constant popping, grinding, and cracking in the joint
7) Both my shoulders are hyper-mobile and my range of motion would make swimmers jealous.
When I first talked to my doctor, he requested an MRI, but the insurance company I have refused and insisted I see a physical therapist first. Physical therapist immediately thought something was wrong and asked for an MRI (former PT for an MLB team), but physical therapy was my only choice at the time, so we agreed to try strength training, etc. He had noticed that certain part of my range of motion were incredibly weak, especially compared to my left arm/shoulder which isn't my dominant arm. Some exercises really made this evident. I could do 15-20 pounds with my left arm for 20 reps, where as 3 pounds with my right arm would cause total fatigue after 5 reps.
The therapist thought that it was possible I had simply started favoring some muscles and wasn't using everything, and those neglected muscles got really weak over time.
He was in same boat as doctor though, very frustrated they wouldn't allow an MRI. After nearly a year of therapy, things got worse, and I started have very acute, sharp pain in the shoulder joint/socket, especially if I tried lifting my arm above my head.
At one point, I was doing an exercise, and my shoulder 'popped' really loud, and he came over and started feeling on the joint as I did the exercise. He felt grinding, etc. and immediately asked me to stop. He then went and got me a business card for an orthopedic surgeon and said 'i can't fix this'.
I went to see an orthopedic shoulder surgeon, and initial xrays came back negative for anything major, but he said he didn't think it would show anything. After showing him how easily I can dislocate my shoulder (without pain), he said it will definitely require surgery because it should hurt like hell to dislocate it, and it should hurt even worse to put it back in place.. but mine just slides in and out. He suspected that I have a labral tear, which is common in pitchers and is most evident when trying to throw something. This made sense to me because the idea of having to throw a baseball really hard makes me cringe because I feel like it might ruin my arm.
At this point, both my doctor, the PT, and the surgeon all requested that I get an MRI, and the insurance company obliged. I just got my MRI results back (not the study, just the images). I'm waiting for my follow up with the surgeon, but after watching a few youtube videos on how to interpret a shoulder MRI, their initial diagnosis seems to be evident one of the slides.
I exported the slideshow to an AVI and posted it to youtube, which is what the link above is. Apparently all the white stuff is fluid and its bad news. My chiropractor (who is also a physical therapist) saw my vid on youtube and said 'Yes there is fluid there. I don't read shoulders well but it appears to be a tear of the glenoid labrum.'
I'm posting this because I'm curious if anybody else has dealt with this and/or is seeing the same thing in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN3sMU30pKo
1) Started having shoulder stiffness and muscle spasms
2) Shoulder felt increasingly unstable. No matter how I let it rest, it always felt 'off'
3) If I relax my shoulder, my arm will slide out of socket about 1/2 inch. Doesn't hurt.
4) Doesn't hurt to push it back in socket.
5) If I try and throw a ball, my arm feels like it will fall off and the only thing keeping attached is skin and muscle..
6) constant popping, grinding, and cracking in the joint
7) Both my shoulders are hyper-mobile and my range of motion would make swimmers jealous.
When I first talked to my doctor, he requested an MRI, but the insurance company I have refused and insisted I see a physical therapist first. Physical therapist immediately thought something was wrong and asked for an MRI (former PT for an MLB team), but physical therapy was my only choice at the time, so we agreed to try strength training, etc. He had noticed that certain part of my range of motion were incredibly weak, especially compared to my left arm/shoulder which isn't my dominant arm. Some exercises really made this evident. I could do 15-20 pounds with my left arm for 20 reps, where as 3 pounds with my right arm would cause total fatigue after 5 reps.
The therapist thought that it was possible I had simply started favoring some muscles and wasn't using everything, and those neglected muscles got really weak over time.
He was in same boat as doctor though, very frustrated they wouldn't allow an MRI. After nearly a year of therapy, things got worse, and I started have very acute, sharp pain in the shoulder joint/socket, especially if I tried lifting my arm above my head.
At one point, I was doing an exercise, and my shoulder 'popped' really loud, and he came over and started feeling on the joint as I did the exercise. He felt grinding, etc. and immediately asked me to stop. He then went and got me a business card for an orthopedic surgeon and said 'i can't fix this'.
I went to see an orthopedic shoulder surgeon, and initial xrays came back negative for anything major, but he said he didn't think it would show anything. After showing him how easily I can dislocate my shoulder (without pain), he said it will definitely require surgery because it should hurt like hell to dislocate it, and it should hurt even worse to put it back in place.. but mine just slides in and out. He suspected that I have a labral tear, which is common in pitchers and is most evident when trying to throw something. This made sense to me because the idea of having to throw a baseball really hard makes me cringe because I feel like it might ruin my arm.
At this point, both my doctor, the PT, and the surgeon all requested that I get an MRI, and the insurance company obliged. I just got my MRI results back (not the study, just the images). I'm waiting for my follow up with the surgeon, but after watching a few youtube videos on how to interpret a shoulder MRI, their initial diagnosis seems to be evident one of the slides.
I exported the slideshow to an AVI and posted it to youtube, which is what the link above is. Apparently all the white stuff is fluid and its bad news. My chiropractor (who is also a physical therapist) saw my vid on youtube and said 'Yes there is fluid there. I don't read shoulders well but it appears to be a tear of the glenoid labrum.'
I'm posting this because I'm curious if anybody else has dealt with this and/or is seeing the same thing in the video.
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