[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
I’ve obviously been reading your log on that other site, but have been becoming more interested in your story, as I have noticed the odd twinge from my right AC joint recently.
Obviously I’m glad to hear of your successful recovery so far, but I for one am hoping to try and prevent the condition in the first place, in myself. I’m not yet 100% on how best to achieve that, so any input is most welcome.
Obviously there will be collagen and BMD stimulatory substances involved. But as to the specific mobility drills, freeweight exercises to avoid and prehab exercises to incorporate, I’m still up in the air.
BBB[/quote]
Lol…Hey it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t bitch and whine a little bit now would it?
On a serious note though, that’s something to keep a sharp eye on buddy. Basicly, this pathology in particular, can be somewhat thwarted off, by not going uber heavy and intense with your benching and overhead pressing movements BBB. The ONLY way to stop it, is if you catch it very, very early, and cease all of the aforementioned exercises, or dramatically reduce the intensity with which you’re performing them.
This is understandably hard to guage, as often including with myself, the symptoms are so similar to a simple muscle sprain or overload, which one would think just “needs a little rest” etc, that you’ll simply dismiss it as something much more benign. However, if you do catch it and begin to cease these other exercises, you can further help yourself by icing, and other anti-inflammatory modes, as in ibuprofin type shit.
The awful truth to that though is this; Most of the time, this takes at least a year or sometimes even two, to completely stop, and allow the bone to reproduce all the calcium and other bone minerals that it has been “absorbing”. And sad to say, this whole scheme doesn’t work near often enough itself even. But as I say, early catch, and determined application of the anti-inflamm’s, CAN do the trick in the long run if dedicated to dropping those exercises, or decreasing them in intensity and weight used.
But this kind of sucks to be honest, lol. Most of us are looking for balanced physique composition etc, and so it is tough to wait it out without those movements for a year or more. Then you’re stuck with the realization that once you resume said exercises, there’s a great chance to have it come right back again. So it’s a real bitch of a pathology once you get it.
I will say this, the surgery will allow you to indeed resume after some decent length of time, all the aforementioned movements, albeit they must be taken a bit cautiously for quite some time.
I spoke to my surgeon yesterday, and he gave me the green light as did my therapist, for all exercises to begin again. This was a nice Xmas present indeed. We’re going to go ahead and get another MRI on the other shoulder first, before plunging into that one, and meanwhile continue to let this left one heal some more, as there is still some scar tissue, and further healing to allow continuance of.
Anyhow, I certainly appreciate your stopping on by, and hope you have nothing of the sort going on with your ac joint, watch for acute pain right there at the junction of your acromium and clavicle, as well as any suspicious shooting type of deeper more diffuse pain running down the back of that triceps too.
Cheers mate, and thanks again for the interest. This thing is going to be happening more and more frequently to chaps, with the popularity of lifting in general. Most of the time it will steer clear of the casual lifter, but once you tread into intensive training ala “DC” and other low volume/high intensity type stuff, then you raise the possibility greatly of catching it.
ToneBone