[quote]Robert A wrote:
Multiple dislocations, if they were the typical anterior dislocations I would be very careful about dips, flat benching of any kind, really any exercise that subjects your shoulder to alot of extension. To be fair, partial ROM like board presses or rack pressouts may not aggravate it. If you don’t mind me asking what did you do for PT and for how long?[/quote]
I believe the term for what happened is subluxation. Each time it popped back in on its own, and kind slipped down as opposed to backwards.
Dips don’t bother it at all, never have. But flat benching certainly can, and I now only use dumbells, as they don’t bother it nearly as much.
I went to physical therapy for a good long time, probably about three or four months. They had me doing all sorts of shit- straight arm pulldowns with very light weight for reps, rowing motions with bands, some machine that Drago used in Rocky IV that keeps your arms going in circles facing away, and then towards you, and then a series of different exercises using resistance from therapists that are designed to strengthn the rotator cuff muscles.
It did feel much better after all of that, but I dislocated it later on in a BJJ class, and once again doing something else.
A couple months ago I threw a wide left hook at the heavy bag and felt it slip, but that was the first time it had happened in a long while.
The stability in the thing is fucked. I’m very careful with it, and I know that surgery is probably the only solution. But even with that, there’s no guarantee that it works, and the road back from shoulder surgery is really fucking long. Not to mention I’ve never been put under before, so I’m very scared of having a bad reaction to anasthesia and dying.