rebels4life Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I realize this question will be wide open because each person is different. I am just researching wide area for recover on surgery due to shoulder instability. If anyone has had this surgery or known someone who has had this type of surgery. We are going in for a MRI this week. Surgery is going to happen, just looking for some info on the recover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midwest Wrestling Fanpage Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I realize this question will be wide open because each person is different. I am just researching wide area for recover on surgery due to shoulder instability. If anyone has had this surgery or known someone who has had this type of surgery. We are going in for a MRI this week. Surgery is going to happen, just looking for some info on the recover. We hope everything goes well in surgery. Great job this season Josh, I hope you recover well and get your shoulder back to normal. We have trainers up here at work that can get him back together, call me if you want any details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regionrat1 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 Find a good Physical Therapist/ I would make surgury a last choice. Youngon's tend to do too much benchpressing and not enough back work. Don't know details but I hope you for da best. Seems to me dare a allot more shoulder problems know deen when da rat used to strap a singlet on / maybe its da funk wraslin ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 Rebel This is serious stuff. Surgery at this age could result in a lifetime of recurrent problems. Any surgery will result in "scar tissue" which is damage in itself which will limit 100% functionality. What you want is a lifetime free of pain. Personally I would seek out the best available physical therapist and pursue this first. Physical therapy takes much more time, but in the long run may be your best option. Surgery is no guarantee you will be able to salvage your sons wrestling career. I realize I am shooting in the dark because I do not know all of your particulars. I would advise you not to make this decision just to try to salvage his wrestling for the next year. Easier said than done, but you may want to concede his junior year of wrestling for a slower more permanent recovery. As much as I loved watching my son wrestle it would have killed me to have to make your decision. My son made it through H.S. injury free. Thank God! Lots of pain but nothing serious. My experience comes from my other son who does not wrestle and my mother who had shoulder replacement. From my mothers experience I would recommend Dr. Jackson for a second opinion if you have not already gotten one. It would not hurt to get another opinion. He is an othopedic surgeon. Sorry I do not know his first name. He is southside based out of Community South Hospital. My 80 year old mom had a near full recovery. It took a year of physical therapy after surgery. I personally think Jackson is one of the best. My son, who is not a wrestler, has seen a physical therapist(PT) since he was 2 years old. He is almost 20 years old now. He was born with a minor disability. We also had a disability specialist see him twice a year to recommend possible surgery as he grew from year to year. At 12 years old the specialist(a Doctor-- MD ) said my son needed radical surgery to cut his muscle and tendons. We took this to his PT and she hit the roof and said noway. She sent us to Riley Hospital to have him evaluated by a "Team" of specialist. After a battery of test and observations the team gathered around my son and the head surgeon looked at one of his colleagues on the team and said, "Hell he walks more normal than you John, maybe we should do surgery on you first." In other words upon second and third opinion surgery was ruled out. My son has never had surgery and is better off for it. We still see the same PT once a month. Needless to say we ***potty mouth*** canned the first MD. I hope I am not over stepping my self here. If so I apologize. Respecfully Oscar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebels4life Posted May 6, 2009 Author Share Posted May 6, 2009 I posted this topic for anybody to suggest such info on the above topic. I am very thankful for any info on the subject. He has been going thru such pain for the past couple years. He is very dedicated to the sport, loves it. I feel as a parent to give him the best opportunity to enjoy it without going thru so much pain. We have been going to a PT for sometime now and it has helped. He stayed off the mat for about 6 weeks. Then between the doctor and PT we all agreed that we were going to let him get back at it. Just to see how it was going. It was all good until freestyle state and he just came down on it wrong and dislocated it again. I just can't stand to watch him put it in place anymore. He has done it several times and the pain is just to much. He is just very upset with the condition he has been dealt. I feel his pain and my heart goes out to him. I had him in the doctors office on monday and like I said he is going in for MRI to see what can be done. I wish surgery was not something we were going to have to do. I just don't know at this time. I told Josh that if he just did not wrestle he could just continue PT and be ok. He said thats not an option, I love the sport to much. There is life after wrestling, I would just like to watch him be pain free then wrestle and be in so much pain. So here we are just waiting to see really what our options will be. I just wonder if anyone had same injury and had some good advice for us. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparky Posted May 6, 2009 Share Posted May 6, 2009 We had a very close friend whose son had injured his shoulder in junior high and had recurrent problems with it easily dislocating and each season for the next few years the dislocation occurred more frequently and more easily. During this time he would receive PT and worked very hard to avoid surgery. He too loved to wrestle too much...but after his sophomore year he realized that if he ever hoped to continue to wrestle in college he needed to take a season/year off and fully rehabilitate his shoulder. He did not have surgery but embarked on a consistent PT program with integrated weight training to strengthen the supporting points of the shoulder. Missing that year was very difficult for him, especially as he watched his brother and his team wrestle but he came back for his senior year stronger and pain free with an amazing fire to win and found himself at the top of the podium and he is now wrestling in college and has not dislocated his shoulder since. Every case is different and missing a year of a sport you love feels like forever at this age but as parents we know that a year is such a small part of their lifetime and even wrestling career. Best of luck to your family and definately get a few opinions from different doctors before going with surgery the other posts are correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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