Your case is very interesting to all of us who train seriously.
Thank you.
Great news on your repair.
As per my previous posts, I also had this injury a little over 1 1/2 years ago. I had my should operated on in Feb. for a torn Labrum and bone spurs and was back at the weights 2 months later. I can bench ok, but it just feels so far from normal on the one side. I still have some stability issues when I go to lock out and rack the weight. Anyway I have a few other questions as well.
Where did they cut into you? How long of a cut? Also, if you can keep up with the bills it would be great to get a ballpark figure as to what something like that costs.
My insurance covered 80%. I ended up paying approx. $1700 out of pocket. I only went to the PT 2 times because I started to feel overwelmed by the bills. My shoulder is alot better now, but I still have the droopy chest look....
After 5 years of being told that my chest could not be fixed I finally was able to find a competent doctor to take on the challenge. My pec major had completely ruptured in an accident back in Aug 2003. Since then I had been lifting everything but chest due to the injury. I was able to do some light lifts that were controlled like machine bench, but nothing too serious. The reason that doctors said they could not fix it was because of the elasticity lost since the injury. Even if operated on, I was told that the pec major would not stretch back out to the length that it needed to, in order to reconnect it to my shoulder. At Steadmans Hawkins Clinic in Vail I finally found someone willing to attempt the repair. I was given an achilles tendon from a doner in place of my tendon that was injured. The pec major was unrolled as much as it could be, and then attached to the achilles, which was attached to my shoulder with 3 permanent titanium fully threaded screws. The doc currently has me in a sling for the next 6-8 weeks and then 3 months of physical therapy, but I'm confident that the strength will be much better than it was before. I can't wait to get back into the gym, so that I can start strengthening my chest again. It will probably be a little while but I will post before and after pictures of my repair. Just thought that I would share the news. P.S. You guys have to forgive me if this doesn't make complete sense the doctors have me on oxycodone and oxyconton and I feel a bit loopy.
Like I said before bro. What would you do if they told you it couldn't be fixed? Would you just let it go to shit.....? And don't give me that shit about being around since I was shitting yellow because when your old and shitting yellow I'll still be around. The only thing is that the tables will be turned bro.
There are some current pictures up. I edited the first post to where you can see how the progress has come. It's only been 11months, the injury had taken place in 2003 and got operated on in April of 2008. It's going to be a long hull but I think eventually I'll be able to normalize it a little bit.
Deepsea, I have the exact same injury. They attempted to re-attach the tendon to my pectoralis major and it seems to have worked. The functional strength is back but the pec will always slide a bit more to the center when flexxing. Oh well it is what it is i guess.
Awesome news that it is getting better man. Keep up the good work.
They couldn't unroll any of my pec because 5 years had passed since the injury. I was lucky to find a doc to even attempt to work on it, most said there would be no point because it would just unroll again, or tear again. They just used a cadavers achilles tendon and attached at the pec and then to the shoulder to hold it into place.