dchottie |
07-20-2003 10:18 AM |
oh man I feel for you and seriously hope you aren't experienceing the shoulder issues I am. I was recently diagnosed with a long thoracic nerve injury.
The short story of it: the nerve that controls my shoulder blade is malfunctioning and causing my shoulder blade to pop out which in turn causes my shoulder to rotate forward and my shoulder to dislocate. Needless to say it can be extremely painful. It burns almost constantly and when I am not paying attention to making sure it is "tight" it will drop out of socket. There is no physical therapy that will improve it and the only surgical option is to fuse my shoulderblade to my ribcage. NOT
So, I have to wait a year and a half for the nerve to hopefully regenerate. I can still use my arm but I have to be sure to pay attention to keep my shoulder in place and not to raise my arm above my head or the trouble starts.
They say it is a tennis players injury and is caused with a repeated swinging motion of the arm so I suppose just about anyone that has that motion could very easily get it. My orthopedic doc said in his 15 years of practicing he's only seen it one other time and that was from a guy that was skydiving and got his arm tangled in the cords and had his arm jerked really hard.
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