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[QUOTE="AssistSuper, post: 972073, member: 60409"] Be careful with that shoulder and be sure to do a lot of strengthening excercises for the muscles and ligaments. I wrestled through junior high and high school very competitively and had a progressive shoulder injury much like yours that was career ending. What happened with mine is I stretched the ligaments out so badly that my shoulder drooped a good inch and a half lower than the other, to the point that it was almost dislocated all the time. The orthopedic doc would send me to do strengthening excercises, it'd tighten back up, he'd clear me to wrestle, then I'd go back out and screw it up again. Finally I had to call it quits. At that point, I had torn it up so badly that gravity alone made it 10x worse the 6 months after I stopped wrestling. I ended up having to have my shoulder reconstructed by stitching ligaments together and putting my cartiledge capsule back where it belonged. The fun part was after the surgery, my shoulder was immobilized for 6 weeks, and was then too tight, so months of physical therapy was needed to stretch it back out to normal. I consider it well worth it now. No more bones clacking together, no more random arm numbness, and no more searing pain doing the most simple tasks (i.e- reaching out to open a door). The only after effect I have is what I suspect is the beginning of arthritis. I get a dull ache every time it rains. :bang: In regards to something to protect your collarbone from your helmet, look into an EVS race collar, or something of a similar brand. I picked one up about 3 weeks ago, I believe the RC2 model. Whichever one it is, it's the slimmer model. I choose to not zip-tie it to my chest protector for the reason of added collarbone protection. It was weird wearing the first time I went riding, but I don't even notice it now. No reduction of head movement while riding, I don't even notice it's there now. I know it won't guarentee I won't sustain a collarbone/neck injury, but I'll take all the added protection I can get. [/QUOTE]
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