Sorry! I hope you heal well.
yeah, my ortho posse also tells me that generally the bone fractures or the tendons tear but seldom both, unless the trauma is extra-ordinary. i’m happy to be ordinary.
It’s partly due to position, if your arm is straight to mitigate things, the rotator tendons just are not stressed like they might be in throwing something or lifting overhead. It’s also most of the force was dissipated by other areas. It would be quite unusual, maybe in a motorbike accident or something, but I am still pleased you don’t likely need surgery.
If you get weary of trying to sleep in the recliner and long to sleep on your side again, you might want to invest in a MedCline side-sleeping device. I found this online only after I recovered from frozen shoulders, and I would have bought one in a minute had they invented them in time. I’m a side-sleeper and for a year and a half I could only sleep if I piled pillows into an inclined mountain and slept on top of them.
i actually tried a very similar device back in 2013 after shoulder surgery. it was not helpful, sadly,
One never wants to be medically interesting.
So sorry to hear this Qad. I hope you are healing well? What did the Ortho say?
I hope your shoulder heals up quickly. Getting old sucks, although it sounds like something that could have happened at any age.
Yikes, I just saw this.
Best wishes, and congrats on the good prostate news.