What I have learned about a shock wave machine

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Yeah I don’t wish it on anyone. I mean it didn’t change my quality of life too much, i didnt loose any curling strength per se on a straight curl but I did loose à little on supination.

It did however change the shape of my bicep. Actually looks a lot better now having changed my assertion point (not exactly what happen but I’m running a blank with words at the moment) I’m sure you kind of know what I mean. The muscle bulges a lot more. I even joked with the doc and asked if he can disconnect the same tendon on the other side, obviously he just chuckled.

Unfortunately he refuses to reattach it saying that it’s more likely to make things worse rather then better and that in his 20 years he says he never seen or heard of both tearing. He actually has the same thing on one arm. Felt weird when I started adding weight to it after the injury but now I don’t really notice it too much I’ve learned to work around it

I know a couple guys who have had their bicep tendon tear and they reattached to go the arm bone at the top. Took a long time to recover vs just leaving it, but one was a professional arm wrestler and wanted it reattached, and the other guy just wanted it attached properly because he lifts and lifts damn heavy.

This is why I bought the shock wave machine, in hopes that this won’t happen to me. I believe if I kept going and hadn’t hurt my shoulder the way I did, that I would have eventually tore it. I just abuse my body too much and ignore the constant pain. It just became the way it was, just thought it was normal to feel like that, always sore. I couldn’t tell you how many times that I couldn’t lift my arm straight in front of me over the years until it healed, maybe 20 times. Seems to almost be normal to have pain to stretch put my arm to wash my hands in the sink at work (big sink).

 

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I know a couple guys who have had their bicep tendon tear and they reattached to go the arm bone at the top. Took a long time to recover vs just leaving it, but one was a professional arm wrestler and wanted it reattached, and the other guy just wanted it attached properly because he lifts and lifts damn heavy.

This is why I bought the shock wave machine, in hopes that this won’t happen to me. I believe if I kept going and hadn’t hurt my shoulder the way I did, that I would have eventually tore it. I just abuse my body too much and ignore the constant pain. It just became the way it was, just thought it was normal to feel like that, always sore. I couldn’t tell you how many times that I couldn’t lift my arm straight in front of me over the years until it healed, maybe 20 times. Seems to almost be normal to have pain to stretch put my arm to wash my hands in the sink at work (big sink).

I hear ya. I probably will look into this machine. Sounds promising keep us posted.

As for the surgery I’m sure if I pushed it I could have gotten it done. I just took his advice. Between training and being a development miner I’m always sore in some capacity but like you said just seems like my normal now. Nothing to cry about. I might have just forgotten what normal feels like.