Once you screw up your shoulder its never the same again. I landed on mine bmx'ing and it pokes its head out every now and then to remind me why we dumb things when we're younger :lol:

 

I had the shoulders operated on 3 times, 1st 2 times rotator cuff and excess bone removal. The 3rd time, tore the shoulder capsule loose and had it repaired, now I am fit as a fiddle....lol


Well not really, I am still recovering from 2 knee surgeries in the last 7 months, but good news, I get released to go back to work on June 5th...lol

 

:shock: Holy cow ssoutlaw! Did you play linebacker in high school??

Hope everything is mending well!

 

No, I was a tailback...lol
I drove a truck for little Caesars pizza for 10 yrs on the same route and all that humping freight earned me the 1st 2-shoulder surg. Then in Bowman SC at the pilot I slipped in diesel on the fuel island and tore the shoulder capsule grabbing the truck as I went down...lol Pilot paid dearly for that one...lol
Mending good, but at 50 I really need to slow down a little...lol

 

Ditto your hip. They say you're only as old as you feel, and if that's true, I'm so screwed.

I second what some of the people are saying about second opinions, and trying to avoid rotator cuff surgery though. I can think of three guys off the top of my head who had rotator cuff surgery, and none of them were any better off months after the surgery.

I know guys who tell the same story about knee and hip surgery too. It seems to me that unless it hurts so bad you piss your pants at the effort of trying to get out of bed in the morning, you're best off trying to follow up on every possible non-surgical alternative.