Has anyone here had surgery to repair a torn muscle? A rupture in the muscle that is, not a muscle torn from a tendon or a tendon from the bone.
Asking because I ruptured my pec 3 weeks ago and the tear is completely in the muscle, not with the tendon or the bone. I have asked a few high level bodybuilders and a couple of Dr's I know and for the most part I am hearing surgery for muscle and muscle does not really work. One Dr online says he has had a 50% success rate with these procedures but most everyone else says it will not work... My Dr says he really is not sure and I would need the surgen to look at it and prob an MRI
Any advise would be great as I do not have insurance and since I am largely hearing they cannot repair this I do not want to drop hundreds of bucks (or more)to have the surgen look at it and say he can't do anything.
Info for you all on the injury--
5 weeks ago I was training chest and on rep 14 with 315 lbs, barbell bench, I felt a tight and hard pull in my upper right pec in front of the armpit. Racked the weight and had to stop training chest. Felt this 3 times many years ago when benching 405 for 6 before a powerlifting meet. Those times I took a week or two off and was right back into it.
Well, after this I took two weeks off as my pec was still sore the next week, and VERY tight. After the two weeks off I warmed up and it felt good so I worked back up to 315 and on rep number 9 my right pec tore exactly where it had been tight and sore... SUCKS... My spotter even heard it tear, not fun.
Not much pain, not a ton of internal bleeding compared to other pics I have seen but the pec is clearly deformed from the tear as the area of the pec in front of the armpit is now partially gone... SUCKS
Asking because I ruptured my pec 3 weeks ago and the tear is completely in the muscle, not with the tendon or the bone. I have asked a few high level bodybuilders and a couple of Dr's I know and for the most part I am hearing surgery for muscle and muscle does not really work. One Dr online says he has had a 50% success rate with these procedures but most everyone else says it will not work... My Dr says he really is not sure and I would need the surgen to look at it and prob an MRI
Any advise would be great as I do not have insurance and since I am largely hearing they cannot repair this I do not want to drop hundreds of bucks (or more)to have the surgen look at it and say he can't do anything.
Info for you all on the injury--
5 weeks ago I was training chest and on rep 14 with 315 lbs, barbell bench, I felt a tight and hard pull in my upper right pec in front of the armpit. Racked the weight and had to stop training chest. Felt this 3 times many years ago when benching 405 for 6 before a powerlifting meet. Those times I took a week or two off and was right back into it.
Well, after this I took two weeks off as my pec was still sore the next week, and VERY tight. After the two weeks off I warmed up and it felt good so I worked back up to 315 and on rep number 9 my right pec tore exactly where it had been tight and sore... SUCKS... My spotter even heard it tear, not fun.
Not much pain, not a ton of internal bleeding compared to other pics I have seen but the pec is clearly deformed from the tear as the area of the pec in front of the armpit is now partially gone... SUCKS