Just give up disc golf...

[srm_520]

So, over a period of the last year I have continued to push my shoulder and it seems I finally did it. The searing pain was finally bad enough that I listened to my wife and saw the doc. One MRI and lots of money later - I tore a ligament in my shoulder that keeps a bicep tendon in place (I think is the easiest way to describe it) And once this tendon is out of it's groove it sits in - it never goes back. :thmbdown:

Doc says that it's kind of like constant tendinitis of the bicep and makes your shoulder hurt. So...surgery which all they do is cut the tendon and screw it into the bone (6 week recovery min) or use it until it ruptures and apparently the muscle will look like Popeye's arm and the pain goes away. He said you don't lose movement or much muscle control and that John Elway or some famous QB won the Superbowl after rupturing his. Interesting.

But I love the end of the conversation - "Well, it'd just be easier if you gave up disc golf." Yeah, and maybe I could start pee sitting down too. Ain't happening. Then he follows up with, my girlfriend love to play, are there any Houston courses? Finish with a brief DGCR conversation.

So I guess since surgery sounds expensive and stupid - I get to live in pain until I mess it up so bad that it ruptures - that or I learn to throw right-handed. hmm...

Anyone else have something similar happen to them?

 

[agent_peebody]

switch arms dude. i'd rather learn with my off arm than never play

 

[Roc1Time]

Just throw wiu your other arm

 

[Jukeshoe]

That totally sucks dude. I say get to like the pain, or throw lefty. :sympatheticsmiley:

 

[agent_peebody]

this is the EXACT reason why when i'm doing field work, i throw my whole bag at least one time with my left arm

 

[kpc2004]

i know a guy in nac (craig) who had a bad shoulder or elbow injury and was forced to switch hands. after a while he got pretty damn good at it too IMO. its kinda like my knee right now. it is so messed up and im putting off the surgery til it pops, then ill get it fixed. in the mean time im still playing soccer and just picked up disc again, so im sure it wont be too long til my knee just completely goes out. but hey, what are vicodin's for right?

 

[Kwick]

a friend of mine (all gunked up) has had shoulder surgery or something so he learned to play with his off hand. he throws better with his off hand (lefty) than most people do with their regular arm

 

[agent_peebody]

i know a guy in nac (craig) who had a bad shoulder or elbow injury and was forced to switch hands. after a while he got pretty damn good at it too IMO. its kinda like my knee right now. it is so messed up and im putting off the surgery til it pops, then ill get it fixed. in the mean time im still playing soccer and just picked up disc again, so im sure it wont be too long til my knee just completely goes out. but hey, what are vicodin's for right?

exactly, pass the vics around

 

[gcr_russell]

kpc2004, not suggesting that as a good idea with the knee. The first time I blew out my knee after putting off going to the doctor. When that happened a part of my femur came off. I had to have some major surgery done on my knee, and its never been the same since. If Id just gotten it taken care of in the first place its possible my knee would still be usable.

 

[agent_peebody]

pffft, femurs are overrated anyway, right?

 

[gcr_russell]

Yeah theyre stupid. My standstill works just fine.

 

[srm_520]

switch arms dude. i'd rather learn with my off arm than never play

Looks like I'll do a bit of that just to see how it goes as well as just play in pain. I hate losing and playing poorly too much to start over.

 

[mabraddock]

i broke my collar bone a few years back and my shoulder kills me after a whole day o disc... sucks man i feel ya...

 

[kpc2004]

kpc2004, not suggesting that as a good idea with the knee. The first time I blew out my knee after putting off going to the doctor. When that happened a part of my femur came off. I had to have some major surgery done on my knee, and its never been the same since. If Id just gotten it taken care of in the first place its possible my knee would still be usable.

believe me i know its not smart. my uncle is this guy lol. im aware of the risks im taking, but i also know that the surgery isnt completely necessary at this time which is why im putting it off, but i do appreciate the heads up. im getting it fixed in the next 6 months if it doesnt go out by then.


dont meant to thread jack, hope your shoulder gets better man!!

 

[srm_520]

believe me i know its not smart. my uncle is this guy lol. im aware of the risks im taking, but i also know that the surgery isnt completely necessary at this time which is why im putting it off, but i do appreciate the heads up. im getting it fixed in the next 6 months if it doesnt go out by then.


dont meant to thread jack, hope your shoulder gets better man!!

I bet your uncle is totally pissed at you! :doh:

 

[mattdabbs]

Is that called the sub-dorsal bursa? I think that is the name? I hurt that about two years ago playing softball. I ran into someone. I felt my shoulder crunch and it get hot from blood pooling in. I never got any therapy or any x-rays or mri's. My father-in-law is a great chiropractor and he adjusted it a few times. I rehabbed it on my own with those rubber bands and stretching. It took 6 months before I could throw full speed again. I am not back to normal. I might have lost 25 feet of distance at most.

I am sorry to hear this is really getting you. Shoot me an email if you want to discuss it.

 

[1eyedjack]

Have You tried throwing backhand instead of forehand? Less risk of serious injury,and maybe less pain.

 

[great white buffalo]

I feel you dude. I had a four wheeler accident a few years ago, and broke a chip off of all four of the bones that travel across the top of the hand where they meet the wrist. It took about six months before it healed up. Fast forward three years. In June I was playing basketball and this guy tried to block my shot and fouled me bad. Pain shot through my wrist and I have been in pain every day since. I go to see the hand specialist Wednesday, and I believe I may have to have surgery to take out the bone chips in there. My back hand is not affected at all, but if I try to throw a forehand I drop to my knees and scream like a little girl. The doctor tried to tell me to lay off of disc golf since there is already a previous injury, and I may injure it worse some day. PPPPFFFFTTT!!! Yeah like that could happen. HOW DO YOU LAY OFF OF DISC GOLF?

 

[sirflicksalot]

you got 2 arms

 

[kpc2004]

you should go to tomball sports medicine, those guys helped me out a ton when my shoulder was put back together