I'm too lazy to look up the archive on this one. Sorry. I was wondering. How many of you people have had shoulder surgery? I mean. Most of us have swum (or is it swam) many miles. What do you contribute your pain too? I have not swum long distances for quite some time. Just wondering what I should watch out for as I begin to balance my stones.
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Two shoulder surgeries on the same shoulder, the left one. One in 1993 and one in 1995. The first surgery was for impingement and fractured collarbone; the second one was rotator. Impingement was far worse recovery wise than the rotator. I was 45 years old on the first one and 47 on the second one. My downtime wasn't too bad, about 8-10 weeks total for each surgery, but was in PT about 3 to 4 months.
My injuries were due to 40 years of swimming; mainly backstroke with a huge rotational stroke. The left shoulder just finally had had too much.
And now I am training for a 20 mile long distance swim in about a year. And, I have learned to differentiate between overuse soreness/pain and injury pain. I don't have any injury pain (yet). :banana:
Donna
Two shoulder surgeries on the same shoulder, the left one. One in 1993 and one in 1995. The first surgery was for impingement and fractured collarbone; the second one was rotator. Impingement was far worse recovery wise than the rotator. I was 45 years old on the first one and 47 on the second one. My downtime wasn't too bad, about 8-10 weeks total for each surgery, but was in PT about 3 to 4 months.
My injuries were due to 40 years of swimming; mainly backstroke with a huge rotational stroke. The left shoulder just finally had had too much.
And now I am training for a 20 mile long distance swim in about a year. And, I have learned to differentiate between overuse soreness/pain and injury pain. I don't have any injury pain (yet). :banana:
Donna
