It’s a gradual thing.I was consistently lifting weight and at first it was lower back sore,then become a little painful then after a few weeks couldn’t move at all
Hey everyone,
Gonna hop back in here for a while. Had some shitty injury stuff go on. @whang appreciate the comment in my other thread. I’ll throw up a detailed post later on tonight.
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Kinda forgot which one was your main log. I haven’t been spending as much time as I’d like around here either. Anyway, looking forward to your update!
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To fill in the several month gap -
Very beginning of 2023, was in a very good place with work, training, and kickboxing/sparring. End of the first week of January, my sister is visiting and I take her to my kickboxing gym for a workout. An old head takes her under his wing and works with her for an hour, and I’m in the last 3 minutes of an hour-long sparring workout with a guy who hits pretty hard and presents a good challenge for me. I’m tired, my technique is probably a bit sloppy at this point, and I feint a rear leg body kick and throw a lead hook instead - he checks the hook upwards and I hear a loud CRUNCH. I cursed and stopped, thinking I had strained something, when the dude points at my shoulder and says “it’s out” - I look down, and my shoulder is hanging all the way out of the socket.
I end up at the hospital, and a young doctor runs in after I’m triaged, and tells me she’s going to have me put it back myself. She has me bend over at the waist, with my arms hanging, and tells me to stand up while flinging my arms up and back in a kind of “I surrender” pose, and that should put it back in. I stood up slowly and warned her that I was going to put all my effort into the motion, and she gave me the thumbs up.
At this point, I’m not even in a hospital room - I’m in the hallway of an intersection in the hospital, surrounded by 2 nurses, my sister, and this doctor, and everybody in the hallway can hear what’s going on, so as I start to bend over, EVERYONE stops, including some random nurse pushing a patient in a wheelchair. I stand up and fling my arms back with everything I have, and there is a CRAZY crunch - it sounded like someone bit into the crispiest fried chicken in the world. The arm does not go back into the socket, the pain is unreal, and everyone watching goes “OOOH” in unison, and then returns to their routine.
2 hours and several other manipulation techniques later, I have to be sedated to get the ball back in the socket. In the subsequent weeks following the incident, through various MRI’s, X-ray’s and ortho visits, it comes to light that that crunch sound was part of my shoulder girdle popping off, and the stub of that girdle grinding a half-inch groove into the top of my humerus (arm bone), leaving an acute hill-sachs lesion and a bony bankhart lesion.
Ortho said I could try to rehab without surgery, so I jumped into band exercises, bear crawls, crab walks, and all sorts of stuff that was pretty taboo in the early stages of a shoulder injury, but by the time I got to physical therapy 3 weeks later, the PT was surprised that I had almost 100% ROM and could do push-ups. Despite my initial tendency to attack the injury head-on and the positive results that followed, I spent nearly 2 months living in fear from the constant feeling of instability and the possibility of re-dislocating the joint. Decided a couple weeks ago to revert back to the head-on approach and stop letting the injury dictate my future, and have just been relying on ring pull-ups and burpees (shout out @ChongLordUno, I watch your videos all the time). I’m still not close to 100% in terms of everything being healed, but I hit 100 burpees and 30 pullups during my last workout - a huge improvement from my lowest point.
I’m gonna start logging again - this place has only ever been a net positive for me, and I’ve got a pretty sweet backyard setup at the moment. I’ll throw up some footage of a workout soon.
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Hey @flappinit brother
I winced reading about your injury man. Horrific. I’m 100% certain a man with your mindset will overcome.
Also thanks for the shout out man. I’m honoured that I have played a tiny part in your comeback!
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Man, how brutal. I’ve popped my shoulder out twice from throwing hands as well: both times on an overhand right rather than a hook.
Sounds like you’re healing strong, which doesn’t surprise me. You’re too tough to kill. Be exciting to watch you become reborn.
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I think you just need to rip some max-effort trap bar pulls and you’ll be good to go. Great to see you back man.
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So happy to see you back!
Wishing you a speedy recovery!
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Damn sorry to hear that bro. Hopefully it heals well
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@ChongLordUno more than a tiny part - your transformation has been awesome!
@T3hPwnisher same as I said to Chong - the ER doctors told me to keep the arm in a sling for 3 weeks, and each day it just felt stiffer and worse, so on day 3 I took it off and started doing band exercises. Quite literally thought of videos of you rehabbing stuff head on, like the METBP that @mr.v3lv3t mentioned (good to see you too, dude)
@anna_5588 Thanks! I really hope you’re doing well. Gotta catch up in your log to see your progress, always enjoy seeing your work ethic.
@whang 
Everyone I tell says I’m due for a lifetime of reinjury but I found a couple videos of people working to strengthen their shoulders in insane and scary ROM’s and they claim they’ve eliminated repeat instances. I feel like if I avoid all the things that my ortho (and even my PT a couple times) told me to avoid, I’ll just be weak, and then when I’m put into a compromising position without prior notice, THEN I’ll reinjure something. My most recent pullups were all dead hang on rings - VERY scary but also super encouraging once my shoulder didn’t fly out of the socket.
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Man, I could feel your description of the injury. Been there with the shoulder, and it’s not a fun place to be. Sorry to hear about the setback, but glad you are getting yourself back into the game!
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man sorry to read this.
wishing you a swift and complete recovery
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A couple of things here:
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I’ve always had the mentality that “once injured, always injured.” Now, don’t get me wrong. That doesn’t mean I’m not going to play or lift anymore. It simply means, I know something happened to it already, and so I have to strengthen that part more now because the risk for reinjury is high. Gotta be careful about it too (like not playing consecutive days, or being extra mindful when it becomes sore).
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For every video that has managed to strengthen back their should in scary ROMs, how many have re-injured their shoulder? Sure it’s possible, but again, you’ll just have to be careful with it.
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I agree with you on the avoiding thing. Avoiding this and that is usually the reflex advise. But think of it this way… that’s usually the advice because a lot of patients simply don’t have the discipline to undergo rehab and subsequent strength training to take care of that injured part and strengthen it back to normal if something happens. They’ll probably go to rehab, go through the motions, then stop doing rehab. How many push through with it when the rehab is done? Most just want the easy way out. Just the fact that you do lift weights AND train smart already means that you probably fall under a different category. You being able to do pullups again definitely is reassuring. Again, it just falls back to point number 1 - Yeah you have to strengthen it again, but definitely gotta know when to stop too. Otherwise, the NBA or NFL wouldn’t exist lol
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Injury sounded horrible, glad you are working your way through it and good to have you back posting mate.
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Long work trip over with! Exhausted, happy to get back to it tomorrow, since I don’t have to go into work.
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Phew. Got hit with two more work trips back to back. Also, took down a load bearing wall in the house but had it done barebones, so the beam isn’t encased, there are holes in the ceiling from where the electrician rerouted wires, and the flooring was partially taken up. Redid the flooring, patched the ceiling, and I’m almost done with all the mudding and ready to paint.
Today’s workout was 20 sets of 15 KB swings with the 50#, with exercises in between every set - pushups, overhead BB walk, cleans and presses, pullups, and front squats on the squat wedge, repeating every 5 sets.
Food after was a burrito with braised beef, cilantro lime rice, homemade guac, shredded cheese, black beans, pico, and lite sour cream on a keto wrap. Toasted the whole burrito in a pan for a bit on both sides and ate with some hot sauce. Amazing.
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Today’s work:
10 clean + press with bar
5 ring pullups
10 pushups
15 bicep curls with bar
X10 rounds
100 squats on rogue squat wedge holding two 15# DBs
Still trying to ease into the shoulder, but everything feels pretty strong at the moment. The ring pullups are really disappointing at the moment - I used to just fly up on the first pullup and now it feels like someone’s tied bags of concrete to my feet. Just part of rebuilding all those little muscles that tore during my injury and my recovery is way ahead of schedule but I can’t help being impatient.
Just gonna keep up with my daily bear crawls and crab walks. The crab walks are, for lack of a better term, terrifying. It’s such a compromising position for the labrum and the shoulder in general it’s hard to work up the courage to do it sometimes. I think I mentioned it before, but the fear associated with the dislocation makes me feel like a real sissy, haha. Nothing to do but keep pushing.
Post workout was another burrito with the same makings. Can squeeze one more out of my fixings tomorrow.
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Birthday party for the kids this morning, just got in some quick work beforehand, partially inspired by a @ChongLordUno short
5 burpees
10 2-count mountain climbers
5 2-pump burpees
10 2-count mountain climbers
As many rounds as possible in 30 minutes. Not sure how many rounds I got - was drenched in sweat at the end, which is the point. Quick shake with protein powder and fresh ground honey roasted peanut butter.
Have some extra raw salmon in the fridge that I’m probably gonna broil and eat with some lemon pepper noodles after some pull-ups when I get back from this party. Then it’s a last layer of drywall mud for my ceiling so I can sand tomorrow and prepare to paint the whole downstairs.
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Mountain climbers are a descent into the darkness for sure.
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Today’s work:
10 pushups on push-up bars - 3 count down, pause at bottom
5 chin ups on rings, slow negatives
10 ATG squats on rogue wedge holding 30# dbs
5 SLDL’s with 135
X10 rounds
Am also attempting to cut alcohol out of my life entirely. During my injury, a few drinks a week turned into a couple drinks a night, which turned into 4-5 drinks a night. Sleep started getting worse, gained some unwanted pounds, overall just started not feeling good, and then my first few days saying “I want to stop” ended with me having a couple drinks anyway - a good indication that it’s becoming a problem. I’m a week without a drink at this point, feeling phenomenal, even went to my bi-weekly poker night with friends, all of whom drink, last night and enjoyed myself without having a sip. Dunno how relevant all this is here, but just wanted to touch on it.
First meal, lunch, after workout -
Broiled salmon, 3 eggs, half an avocado. Delicious, threw some sriracha on it halfway through, even more delicious.
Dinner won’t be particularly healthy, as my wife’s favorite dish is chicken pot pie and today is mother’s day so I’m making it from scratch (including dough) for her, but no worries - will get in a long walk before dinner and I have some more drywall work to do to finish everything off today.
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