Anyone familiar with this procedure??? Had it done on you???
It is used to treat biceps tendonitis of the shoulder whereby, in kinda layman's terms, the tendon is cut where it attaches into the labrum and reattached on the humerus thereby eliminating the tendon's span of the shoulder joint and hopefully, the source of its irritation/inflammation...
Love to hear from anyone who's had this done; particularly from anyone who enjoyed success with it, but I suppose I should listen to the failures too, but jeeze, I hope those are few...
I have had a very long recovery. Just swam in my first meet this weekend (USMS Nationals). Virtually no swim training because I just couldn't get my arm to do what it needed to do without pain. Not pain that I couldn't tolerate, pain that told me I was really irritating and impinging my rotator cuff. I am not messing with that again. Not going to swim through the pain and hurt something again.
My physical therapists have been wonderful. They now tell me I had frozen shoulder after surgery. My surgeon said I progressed slower than most. Nobody knows why, just some people do. Maybe because of the extent of the surgery, maybe because I am a big baby. Some people are just more inflamed and develop more scar tissue.
All biceps pain I had before surgery is gone. The tenodesis worked well. Just the lingering rotator cuff / impingement pain.
Flexibility is still not back to normal, nor is the rotator cuff strength. It is just now to the point where I can hold my arm above my head and streamline off the wall without pain AND to where I can hold it stable. In February, just pushing off the wall and holding my right arm in a streamline position was a workout.
I am still having some impingement pain. PT says that if I can get a bit more strength in the rotator cuff (specifically external rotation) and better flexibility (specifically in internal rotation), the shoulder should sit in the proper position and the impingement + associated pain will go away.
I didn't know recovery would take this long. I have seen others stories and they were back in swimming their best in much less than a year.
Would I have surgery again if I could go back in time, knowing how it would go? Still not sure I would. Hopefully my answer will be yes in a few more months.
I have had a very long recovery. Just swam in my first meet this weekend (USMS Nationals). Virtually no swim training because I just couldn't get my arm to do what it needed to do without pain. Not pain that I couldn't tolerate, pain that told me I was really irritating and impinging my rotator cuff. I am not messing with that again. Not going to swim through the pain and hurt something again.
My physical therapists have been wonderful. They now tell me I had frozen shoulder after surgery. My surgeon said I progressed slower than most. Nobody knows why, just some people do. Maybe because of the extent of the surgery, maybe because I am a big baby. Some people are just more inflamed and develop more scar tissue.
All biceps pain I had before surgery is gone. The tenodesis worked well. Just the lingering rotator cuff / impingement pain.
Flexibility is still not back to normal, nor is the rotator cuff strength. It is just now to the point where I can hold my arm above my head and streamline off the wall without pain AND to where I can hold it stable. In February, just pushing off the wall and holding my right arm in a streamline position was a workout.
I am still having some impingement pain. PT says that if I can get a bit more strength in the rotator cuff (specifically external rotation) and better flexibility (specifically in internal rotation), the shoulder should sit in the proper position and the impingement + associated pain will go away.
I didn't know recovery would take this long. I have seen others stories and they were back in swimming their best in much less than a year.
Would I have surgery again if I could go back in time, knowing how it would go? Still not sure I would. Hopefully my answer will be yes in a few more months.
