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Shoulder Surgery in May
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[QUOTE="rmc_olderthandirt, post: 1167880, member: 68872"] My son dislocated his shoulder wakeboarding during the summer between his junior and senior year in high school. The doctor told him that the ligament damage was such that the shoulder would be prone to dislocating very easily now, but that otherwise he was fine. The doctor told him that he will eventually want it fixed, but that he could wait for an opportune time, which for my son was the end of football season. The doctor was 100% accurate. The shoulder dislocated several more times during the summer and football season, although it was not as painful as the initial and he was able to pop it back in by himself. It was definately annoying though and keeping him from doing certain things that he wanted to do. My son's first love is wakeboarding so he didn't want to jepordize that. We scheduled his surgery for the week after the final high school football game, so early December. He went through the surgery fine and other than the first couple of days where he had to sleep sitting in a chair it wasn't bad at all. I wouldn't let him ride the dirt bike that way but he did manage to sneak away on the quad one time... I forget exactly when he returned to something resembling normal activity but I am pretty sure it was before May. He definately took it easy on that arm for a while. He had dislocated during a wakeboard trick that required holding the handle with just that one hand so he avoided that trick for quite a while, sticking to the tricks that have both hands on the handle. It's been three years and everything seems fine. He says that it will occasionally feel a little funny or "pop" a little bit but it doesn't appear to be slowing him down any. I think that was the injury that convinced him that he is not imortal, however, and now he is a little more cautious than he was before. On the flip side, my nephew, who is 6 months older than my son, had the exact same surgery on the same shoulder about the same time. His didn't work out quite as well. After the surgery his would still occasionally dislocate so he ended up having the surgery a second time. Seems okay now.... Rod [/QUOTE]
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