Ok, its been awhile since I've posted here. This coming December 22 I will be one year post surgery from my last shoulder surgery. I have had a few set backs and detours on my road to recovery. I won't go thru them all, but the biggest set back occurred the first week in April while on vacation at PC Beach. Before going on vacation my therapist told me to not lift more than 5lbs with my recovering left shoulder. So I'm standing out on the condo balcony overlooking the beach and ocean enjoying the view while doing side raises with a three pound dumbbell lifting the weight and holding at shoulder level for 2 seconds before slowly lowering it. On one of the repetitions as I paused at the top, I suddenly found my 4 year old niece hanging from my raised arm. She had snuck up behind me and had jumped up and grabbed a hold of my wrist yanking my arm down. A second incident occurred while we were packing to leave. I was holding a 6 foot strap in my left hand while talking to my sister when the same niece grabbed the end of the strap and started trying to pull it from me. I told her 3 times to stop and then my sister told her to stop. I felt the strap go slack and then suddenly my arm was jerked forcefully straight back. The little monster had gotten mad and with a running start threw everything she had into snatching the strap from me. As soon as we got back from vacation I went to my doctor and he ordered another MRI done on the shoulder. The results of that showed the anchors were all in place and the tendon was not torn, but it was stretched thinner and now had a micro hole in it. This all reset my therapy back by months.
So fast forward to today, I'm still doing rehab for my shoulder and it is improving but I'm still having issues with it. Most of it is nerve related issues and my doctor prescribed dry needling as part of my rehab. I've undergone 5 sessions of dry needling and it has helped. My next session is this coming Monday which is the last one currently covered by insurance.
About a month ago I decided to start back lifting again in addition to doing my rehab. Workouts have been going well and I feel like I'm getting back into a groove again. My workouts are on a 4 day split working upper body on Mondays/Thursdays and lower body and Tuesday/Fridays. Shoulder rehab is done Monday and Thursdays as part of my warmups and on Saturdays as a stand alone session. I listen to my body and how my shoulder feels to determine how hard I push it each session. I'll start posting my workouts and rehab work here again and share the good, the bad and the ugly.