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**boarderaholic** · 12-29-2010, 02:56 PM

Yeap, I'm in the same boat as you. Dislocated it Dec 5th, then again on the 10th. Only difference is the shoulder popped in again both times. I had a nice little chit chat with my therapist, and I'm looking at about 6-8 weeks healing time from the time of the first dislocation, 12 if I don't do my exercises. Be careful with that joint, because once you pop, you don't stop.

Willy36 · 12-29-2010, 03:27 PM

You two are lucky if you have never had full dislocations. When it pops back in, it's called a subluxation and I've had probably close to 20 of those on the right shoulder and 1 on the left. Thought they were pretty bad until this happened, then realized, they aren't so shabby

An update though: It has now been about 4 1/2 weeks and I feel like the shoulder is about 75-80%. The slowest thing to heal has been the deltoids; for some reason, they were been numb and completely non-functional until just about a week ago when finally they decided to join me again, though they're still weak as hell. I figure once I have enough strength in them to keep the shoulder in place even during hard impacts and the like, I'll be back on the mountains. Hopefully no more than another week and a half to 2 weeks.

FtCS4 · 01-05-2011, 12:35 AM

Shoulder injuries suck!

I popped BOTH of mine out at the same (left out the front, right out the back) playing rugby two years ago. They've both popped out countless times since then, though luckily it hasn't happened again since the end of last boarding season. Caught an edge bombing a run and landed right on my right shoulder again. I was able to set it (got pretty damn good at that over a year!) but it still bothered me for weeks.

The most important thing is to really keep up with PT and to not get too ambitious when trying to get back to 100%. Let it heal naturally. I, like a dumbass 18 year old at the time, didn't. Kept lifting on them after the first injury and it completely screwed me over. I used to DB press the 100s for 10 reps easy (highest my school had), now I can barely do 50s for 8. And that's after 3 months of sticking with PT and giving them a lot of time to rest between good workouts. Ruined my military aspirations and got me pretty depressed for a long time which led to me slacking in running and everything else. Only just now starting to really get back into shape, and am definitely taking it easy on my shoulders and keeping up with physio.

Willy36 · 01-15-2011, 10:08 PM

One day short of 7 weeks after the initial injury, got back out and it did great

Even landed on it kinda funny a few times and it never had an issue. Still really weak, but very stable. Anyways, I'm back on a board, so that's all I care about right now (and of course getting my damn strength back)

51bombed · 01-17-2011, 12:12 AM

after a freestyle motox incident involved a wide range of injuries to my shoulder/neck area[i.e. collarbone, rotary cuff, dislocation, multiple breaks/fractures in arm] i often dislocate my shoulder now... even happened on a rope swing this summer huckin flips into a lake. after the initial week and half or so of getting it back in and the bruising feeling that comes with it subsides when it's rested im usually back out doing whatever, i just avoid lifting above my shoulder height or putting workloads on it. extreme pain if i do and that period lasts about a month/2months for me. ongoing for about 4 years now

Telosin · 01-17-2011, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by garlicbread

i know my story isnt average but heres my experience. about 5 years ago i dislocated my shoulder pretty bad skating, i ended up having to go to the hospital and like you said have it put back in by a doctor and a few nurses. then it happened again a few weeks later at a rope swing... back to the hospital. after that it must have dislocated 50 times over the coarse of a year and i just learned how to put it back in myself. i was sooooo bumbed out for the longest time, no skating or snowboarding. i waited a while to get health insurance from work so i could get surgery, it was not practical for me to get arthroscopic surgery as i had done to much damage to the joint, i decided to have full blown open shoulder surgery (i forget the actual name for it) where a useless bone would be cut out and placed in the socket to replace the missing cartilage. the surgeon did a great job, after a painful 6 months to a year recovery, my shoulder was absolutely back to normal and to this day still is. long story short, shoulders are a bitch, my shoulder injury kept me away from snowboarding for 3 years as i was just afraid of hurting my shoulder, then dealing with the rehab/recovery phase.

don't mean to threadjack, but this EXACT same thing has happened to me. i dislocated mine diving for a frisbee (it was night and I landed on a sidewalk that i totally didn't see) and it has been dislocating over and over for 2 years. now i just slide it back in when it pops out and grit my teeth for 5 minutes until the pain goes away. i've gotta get surgery soon but i keep putting it off until after snowboarding/longboarding/wakeboarding season which basically takes up the entire year. it has gotten to the point now where it pops out doing everything. it even dislocated the other night while i was asleep when i pulled up my blanket. was there a certain name for that full-blown surgery?

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12-29-2010, 02:56 PM	#11 (permalink)
boarderaholic Moderator Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Edmonton Posts: 2,066	Yeap, I'm in the same boat as you. Dislocated it Dec 5th, then again on the 10th. Only difference is the shoulder popped in again both times. I had a nice little chit chat with my therapist, and I'm looking at about 6-8 weeks healing time from the time of the first dislocation, 12 if I don't do my exercises. Be careful with that joint, because once you pop, you don't stop.

12-29-2010, 03:27 PM	#12 (permalink)
Willy36 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado Posts: 275	You two are lucky if you have never had full dislocations. When it pops back in, it's called a subluxation and I've had probably close to 20 of those on the right shoulder and 1 on the left. Thought they were pretty bad until this happened, then realized, they aren't so shabby An update though: It has now been about 4 1/2 weeks and I feel like the shoulder is about 75-80%. The slowest thing to heal has been the deltoids; for some reason, they were been numb and completely non-functional until just about a week ago when finally they decided to join me again, though they're still weak as hell. I figure once I have enough strength in them to keep the shoulder in place even during hard impacts and the like, I'll be back on the mountains. Hopefully no more than another week and a half to 2 weeks.

01-05-2011, 12:35 AM	#13 (permalink)
FtCS4 Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 61	Shoulder injuries suck! I popped BOTH of mine out at the same (left out the front, right out the back) playing rugby two years ago. They've both popped out countless times since then, though luckily it hasn't happened again since the end of last boarding season. Caught an edge bombing a run and landed right on my right shoulder again. I was able to set it (got pretty damn good at that over a year!) but it still bothered me for weeks. The most important thing is to really keep up with PT and to not get too ambitious when trying to get back to 100%. Let it heal naturally. I, like a dumbass 18 year old at the time, didn't. Kept lifting on them after the first injury and it completely screwed me over. I used to DB press the 100s for 10 reps easy (highest my school had), now I can barely do 50s for 8. And that's after 3 months of sticking with PT and giving them a lot of time to rest between good workouts. Ruined my military aspirations and got me pretty depressed for a long time which led to me slacking in running and everything else. Only just now starting to really get back into shape, and am definitely taking it easy on my shoulders and keeping up with physio.

01-15-2011, 10:08 PM	#14 (permalink)
Willy36 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado Posts: 275	One day short of 7 weeks after the initial injury, got back out and it did great Even landed on it kinda funny a few times and it never had an issue. Still really weak, but very stable. Anyways, I'm back on a board, so that's all I care about right now (and of course getting my damn strength back)

01-17-2011, 12:12 AM	#15 (permalink)
51bombed -LIFETIME MEMBER- Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: GA Posts: 261	after a freestyle motox incident involved a wide range of injuries to my shoulder/neck area[i.e. collarbone, rotary cuff, dislocation, multiple breaks/fractures in arm] i often dislocate my shoulder now... even happened on a rope swing this summer huckin flips into a lake. after the initial week and half or so of getting it back in and the bruising feeling that comes with it subsides when it's rested im usually back out doing whatever, i just avoid lifting above my shoulder height or putting workloads on it. extreme pain if i do and that period lasts about a month/2months for me. ongoing for about 4 years now