Mission Viejo-LC Nationals

Kim - long story short - About 8 years ago I fell while running and destroyed the muscles/ligaments that hold the rotator cuff together with the shoulder; therefore my shoulder doesn't really stay in the socket. Somehow, with lots of weightlifting, I've managed to be able to swim quite a bit (stopped running almost 6 years ago) but it's gotten to the point that my entire arm goes numb during the night or when I swim more than a mile nonstop. According to the sports med doc I am a good candidate for surgery because 1) my age - 40 on Sunday...as we get older, our shoulders tighten but my injured one has not, 2) time when injury occured - should be better by now but it's not and 3) I've been strengthening for quite some time so post surgery healing should go really well. I have an MRI scheduled for June 20 and another appt. to discuss it with the dr. on June 27. You will probably do a lot of physical therapy after surgery to strengthen and according to my dr. (you should ask yours too and do some research) there is no reason why we couldn't swim again. Good luck - let us know how it goes!! Make sure you get some good pain medication...! ;)

Kim - long story short - About 8 years ago I fell while running and destroyed the muscles/ligaments that hold the rotator cuff together with the shoulder; therefore my shoulder doesn't really stay in the socket. Somehow, with lots of weightlifting, I've managed to be able to swim quite a bit (stopped running almost 6 years ago) but it's gotten to the point that my entire arm goes numb during the night or when I swim more than a mile nonstop. According to the sports med doc I am a good candidate for surgery because 1) my age - 40 on Sunday...as we get older, our shoulders tighten but my injured one has not, 2) time when injury occured - should be better by now but it's not and 3) I've been strengthening for quite some time so post surgery healing should go really well. I have an MRI scheduled for June 20 and another appt. to discuss it with the dr. on June 27. You will probably do a lot of physical therapy after surgery to strengthen and according to my dr. (you should ask yours too and do some research) there is no reason why we couldn't swim again. Good luck - let us know how it goes!! Make sure you get some good pain medication...! ;)