Thanks for the advice, friends. My doctor and his team are very conservative, but I'm doing my exercises now, will take full advantage of the 6 weeks off work to do PT 3 days a week, and hope to wow everyone with how quickly I'm back on my Betty Foy.
On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 2:12:54 PM UTC-8, Jim Bailey wrote: > > Yesterday my new orthopedic surgeon informed me that I will have shoulder > surgery in March. He suspects I have been walking around with a torn labrum > in my left shoulder for some time (probably initially due to a bike wreck) > but worsened the injury moving oak logs (for firewood) mid-fall. For those > who know the jargon, it's a SLAP tear. > > Searching for info about cycling and recovery from this kind of surgery > has left me a bit blue. It looks like 4-6 weeks in a sling, then very slow > 4-6 months to full use. > > Ironically, I'd just received a 54cm Sam Hillborne frame the week I tore > it. The frame is now fully built and sits unused. > > My questions are: Has anyone on the list had the surgery and, if so, what > was your recovery like? And, what's the best wisdom from the group > regarding cycling and recovery from SLAP repairs? > > Thanks, > Jim in Knoxville, TN > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
