[NaViT]

anyone ever had theirs dislocated? my right one has dislocated 14 times and my left one once... it sucks because it will keep happening and im an active person i do boxing and mixed martial arts so it requires my shoulders to be strong... so i gotta get my ligaments operated... anyone know the process? would i have a big scar on my shoulders? anyone know anything about this letme know

[Straz M3]

I have the same injury with my left shoulder ( I am righty). Mine has popped out way more times than 14...its been a problem for about 5 years. I should go for surgery but like you I dont know what is involved and I dont want to be in a sling forever

[!Xoible]

they just dislocate on their own?
i know techniques to easily dislocate shoulders but i also know that shoulder dislocation should not have long term harm.
Same for elbows

that's kinda strange. When does it dislocate? while you're grappling or something?

[NaViT]

it dislocates moving it back with weight or without it doesnt matter any fast movement thats incorrect the ligaments wont hold it... it hasnt happend grappling or training yet but its only matter of time... its happend 6 times playing basketball so i stopped... 3 times playing football so i stopped... 2 times baseball so i stopped...etc etc but im not gunna stop doing MMA so i wunna operate fast

[DasBlitz]

My brothers friend's shoulder does that. He would dislocate it even when just play wrestling. And he is a few years older than us. So we were young and not even strong during high school.

He was going to do the surgery. But here is the big thing. It takes nearly upto a year for it to be normal and fully functional. He did not want to wait that long so has just lived with it. Seems fine. He is in the national guard and such now.

[!Xoible]

man, that's kinda strange. maybe you're being extra stiff and you need to relax more. it sounds like you're putting too much stress on the wrong area (your shoulder) so it's popping outta place.

seen a doc?

[just4kickz]

Originally Posted by NaViT

anyone ever had theirs dislocated? my right one has dislocated 14 times and my left one once... it sucks because it will keep happening and im an active person i do boxing and mixed martial arts so it requires my shoulders to be strong... so i gotta get my ligaments operated... anyone know the process? would i have a big scar on my shoulders? anyone know anything about this letme know

uhh i have alot of shoulder trauma in my left shoulder possibly from one very bad dislocation followed by at least 100 sublexes. been through about 5 doctors including a few from Stanford's Orthopedics. I've done physical therapy twice for the same injury. Originally they thought it was a rotater cuff injury, and now they think its my serratus... might be both. my serratus doesnt fire very well so my shoulder is kinda messed up. my lifts are okay... but its a bit shaky.

are you sure it was a dislocation? or was it a sublex?--basically when it partially comes out... dislocation is when it comes out completely. and is it a front or backward dislocation?--most people have the front one since our shoulders are cuped in a way to prevent bcakwards dislocation. if anything u shud consider PT first.... and if that doesnt solve it... then surgery and then PT rehab

[japac1]

Agree. PT is always a good idea first. However, with many subluxations and/or dislocations, the soft tissue (ligaments, etc) get stretched out and like a rubber band, can become deformed. For a very active person, surgery may be the only good cure. For a couch potato, I would recommend nothing very invasive.

[jasonn]

I've broken and dislocated my shoulder/collar bone at the same time but I just let it heal without surgery. Now it gets sore all the time and I'm seriously considering surgery to fix it.

[BMW2006]

I had to get rotator cuff surgery about 10 years ago on my left shoulder. Before the surgery I had it pop in and out about 5-6 times before getting it fixed. It had become so loose that after they gassed me and were moving the shoulder into position to be operated on it just fell out of the socket.

Surgery wasn't too terrible, They did Orthoscopic (sp) surgery on it and all I have are two scars that look like + signs about .5 to 1 inch in diamter on the back of my shoulder. It sucks to have your arm slinged for a couple weeks, I would recommend at least a week off of work (sick time is good for something isn't it?) depeding on what you do for a living. Then you get to rehab it to get range of motion and strength back which was moderately painfull.

I'm very, very glad I did it. If you have health insurance and it's poped out a few times I would consider it a no-brainer. From what I understand PT will strengthen the muscles around the shoulder to help keep it in, but once those ligaments are spaghetti you are pretty much SOL without surgery. Dr.s in the audience are free to correct me If I'm wrong.

For a couple of years during physical activity or just pulling on it wrong I would get a "Zing" through my arm, not really pain but a "buzz buzz, you had surgery once, remember?" message to the good ol Brain, But it wasn't too bad and I haven't had it happen in years.

I didn't push my rehab as much as I should have and have lost some (but not much) mobility in the shoulder. I'm probably at 95% of the range of motion I have in the other one. Although it's just as solid as the other one and I don't have much fear of it being damaged by any less force than what would dislocate a healthy socket. although if you have just the right amount of force, at just the right angle, It's frighteningly easy to have a shoulder pop out.

Hope this helps, and as always, consult a Dr. before making any decisions.

-BMW2006

[NaViT]

thanks that helps... i got to make an appointment and hopefully everything goes good

[Gort]

Be sure to look into arthroscopic laser techniques that shrink the shoulder socket. I've heard that this works well and the healing time is very brief.