I want to share with everyone an observation and my experience with torn rotator cuffs and a torn labrum.
To begin, I recently had surgery on my right shoulder and had two full thickness rotator cuff tears, severe bone spurs below my AC joint and a type IV labral tear that included my biceps tendon. The labrum was completely torn off the bone from 7:00 to 1:00.
The original labral tear (SLAP lesion) was due to a improper strike during Karate 3 years ago; a clothesline tackle type strike. An MRI at that time showed a small SLAP and tendonitis in my shoulder. A canoe race finally did me in.
Saturday after surgery, while still foggy from Morphine, I was watching Bill Dance fish and was wondering why he, twenty years my senior, didn't have problems casting. Then the revelation came. He never casts lifting his elbow higher than his shoulder but rather like a praying mantis with his elbow down. Then Shaw Grigsby came on and he and two buddies were casting just like Dance. My entire life I have casted overhand like a baseball. The past 5 years or so, I began fishing heavy in early spring and late fall in Northern NJ where it is cold at 6am. No stretching, no warm up. I would go from dead sleep to perhaps 30 casts per hour for six hous or more.
The old expression, if I knew then what I know now certainly applies. I hope this helps those whp have any type of shoulder pain.
To begin, I recently had surgery on my right shoulder and had two full thickness rotator cuff tears, severe bone spurs below my AC joint and a type IV labral tear that included my biceps tendon. The labrum was completely torn off the bone from 7:00 to 1:00.
The original labral tear (SLAP lesion) was due to a improper strike during Karate 3 years ago; a clothesline tackle type strike. An MRI at that time showed a small SLAP and tendonitis in my shoulder. A canoe race finally did me in.
Saturday after surgery, while still foggy from Morphine, I was watching Bill Dance fish and was wondering why he, twenty years my senior, didn't have problems casting. Then the revelation came. He never casts lifting his elbow higher than his shoulder but rather like a praying mantis with his elbow down. Then Shaw Grigsby came on and he and two buddies were casting just like Dance. My entire life I have casted overhand like a baseball. The past 5 years or so, I began fishing heavy in early spring and late fall in Northern NJ where it is cold at 6am. No stretching, no warm up. I would go from dead sleep to perhaps 30 casts per hour for six hous or more.
The old expression, if I knew then what I know now certainly applies. I hope this helps those whp have any type of shoulder pain.
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