This is NOT good

[Paradiddle]

I would avoid surgery at all costs. I had ankle surgery TWICE in one year to first repair then replace (when the repair failed) a tendon.

It sucks - big time. I'm still not 100% and it's been 9 months. It will probably be a year + before I'm close to normal.

I realize ankles and much more difficult to heal then knees or shoulders, but surger is a LAST resort now in my book. I'd see a physical therapist and a chiro after your Doctor to get some different opinions.

Jeff

 

[JImbothefiveth]

I'd definantly apply for the crossbow permit. If you think it's cheating just take extra time before you shoot so it's more like using a regular one

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Update is, I'm still working on #2 - Question: Can you get an appt with a physical therapist without going through a Doctor? I know I can a chiro, but I'd trust a PT more than a chiro. I "self-insure"; that is, pay out of pocket for healthcare.

 

[3pairs12]

I think you have to see the doc first for dianosis then pt. It doesn't sound like the chiro would do you much good anyway.

 

[Paradiddle]

If you don't have an insurance company to deal with you can go anywhere you please. I have a PPO so I can go to PT prior to a doctor.

I've been to a couple PTs - they were both great. I would find a sports PT - I think you'll have better luck with the type of injury you have.

Jeff

 

[Uncle Mike]

Damn Doc....! You know how to spoil the upcoming hunting season!

Hey...get in the gym and move some iron, I have been told that when the muscles of the shoulder atrophy this can happen easily.

The muscles actually hold the shoulder joint together.

So...you'll have to do the Arnold Scharw....whatever...thing. lol hehehe

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Thanks everyone.....Funny thing is, I've been weight training hard since February - by far the strongest and best shape in 15 years. My buddies cannot even pull back my bow. The irony is that had I not been weight training, I don't think this ever would have happened. I would not have been strong enough to pull back a bow that was going to pull hard enough the other way to dislocate the socket/joint.

The bow is quite easy to pull back for me (was rather difficult last year before I started the weight training), and I cranked it up higher this year. But here's the deal - this bow has incredible letoff - like 85% - when it let's off or is about to let off, I tend to relax at that point. I think relaxing is what allowed the thing to pull out - so the reality is, if it HAD been a recurve or longbow, where I had to stay tense the entire time, I don't think this would have happened. And the muscle strength is biting me in the butt, because it has outpaced the sheer "holding together strength" of the joint itself, tendons and all.

I suppose the ligament and tendon and "inertial strength" if you will (tendency to stay in place) has been exceeded by arm and back strength which can place pressure on the joint, if that makes any sense, particularly with the prior injury (which I really don't know what exactly is going on in there, whether rotator cuff or what). But I have confidence I'll be able to shoot it if I focus on staying "tense" even after letoff, AND use some sort of orthotic device to hold the shoulder back, AND lighten up the pull weight.