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...
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A few month ago I suffered a SLAP lesion to my right shoulder. It happend while I was doing an intervall set of freestyle. I always swim fast intervalls using a hybrid stroke and the arm I injured was the shoulder driven side. I knew immidiately that I tore my labrum, which was confirmed later through mri. I don´t know for sure whether I tore it due to the hybrid stroke or if I would have torn it too if I swam differently.
What really struck me was, that it happend out of the blue. The days and weeks prior to that I didn´t have any biceps tendon or shoulder pain. It really was that from one moment to another it tore, without any signs of announcement prior.
Right after the injury I was in pain for many month. The pain was located just behind the AC-joint spreeding into the anterior deltoid and the upper trapezius. My shoulder has became very loose in the antrior-superior area of the shoulder since then, which I guess is because the long head of the biceps works as a humeral head depressor and in the absence of it (SLAP-Tear, tenodesis, tenotomy) the capsule stretches out, but I am not 100% sure if that is correct.
So my question is: is here anyone who is swimming successfully with the absence of an intact biceps tendon (tenodesis, tenotomy, SLAP-Tear)? Furthermore can you tell me whether your shoulder has become loose in the anterior-superior area? Did you or do you still have pain on top of the shoulder?
I am still under 30 and can´t have surgery right now, because I just started into my first job after university. I feel like my current condition is somewhat similar to those who had the tenodesis procedure.
A few month ago I suffered a SLAP lesion to my right shoulder. It happend while I was doing an intervall set of freestyle. I always swim fast intervalls using a hybrid stroke and the arm I injured was the shoulder driven side. I knew immidiately that I tore my labrum, which was confirmed later through mri. I don´t know for sure whether I tore it due to the hybrid stroke or if I would have torn it too if I swam differently.
What really struck me was, that it happend out of the blue. The days and weeks prior to that I didn´t have any biceps tendon or shoulder pain. It really was that from one moment to another it tore, without any signs of announcement prior.
Right after the injury I was in pain for many month. The pain was located just behind the AC-joint spreeding into the anterior deltoid and the upper trapezius. My shoulder has became very loose in the antrior-superior area of the shoulder since then, which I guess is because the long head of the biceps works as a humeral head depressor and in the absence of it (SLAP-Tear, tenodesis, tenotomy) the capsule stretches out, but I am not 100% sure if that is correct.
So my question is: is here anyone who is swimming successfully with the absence of an intact biceps tendon (tenodesis, tenotomy, SLAP-Tear)? Furthermore can you tell me whether your shoulder has become loose in the anterior-superior area? Did you or do you still have pain on top of the shoulder?
I am still under 30 and can´t have surgery right now, because I just started into my first job after university. I feel like my current condition is somewhat similar to those who had the tenodesis procedure.
