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For the uninformed, this is not a part on my TR6 but it does affect my working on it. I have to pull both rear springs to get to the rubber packing pads to change them (they slipped) and that takes a bit of jerking. Just the motion that my shoulder cannot handle. Had the steroid injections and it is starting to calm down, but still quite sore. No more shooting pains, just real sore. That, plus I have to remove the front splash panels into my fenders to re-coat them. This requires loooong arms, something my shoulder won't handle right now. So, I am dead in the water for any near-term repairs.


I guess when I pitched for the New York Yankees back when, I must've hurt myself.

<span style='font-size: 8pt'>....W. Mitty</span>
 
Hi Bill.....
I've been through that myself.
Last year when I was changing the bearings with the engine in situ I had a heck of a time pulling on the torque wrench.
When a car gets old it's referred to as a Classic.
When we get old.....
 
Bill,

One of the reasons I quit trucking was having a bad rotator cuff on my right shoulder...along with bone spurs AND arthritis all in the same shoulder.

Funny you should mention this today as I just made an appointment to see a sports medicine guy to give me a quote for surgury...this will be self-pay as I don't have insurance (or any money!).

Maybe he could just subscribe a "shoulder lube"...the hydrocodone I've been taking just doesn't do it anymore!
 
I'm paying for years of stupid lifting of cylinder heads with Bursitis in each forearm and elbow. I used to be able to play golf 7 days a week. Now, I'm pushing it at 3. I've had a Cortisone/Novacane shot in each elbow and now I'm going through therapy on the left.

That's why I won't do any heavy work on mine any more. Easier to pay than to be in pain and not able to drive it.
 
Bill,
Same here too.... mine started in early May and my left arm still feels like it is hanging on by one sensitive nerve. I have good days, try to use those to get the tougher stuff accomplished. I checked the healing time and it looks like 6 to 8 months is the norm, I can't wait. Sorry to hear so many of you have gone through this, I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Brian
 
8 hours straight, one Saturday last spring, of taking a TR4 hood back to bare metal with abrasive and wire wheels left me with "Bonnet Elbow". Getting better now, but it still twinges.
 
I have one shoulder that has been re-constructed twice(ten years apart). The initial dis-location (four wheeler accident outside of Cabo San Lucas) was of the full anterior type. When they went in to correct it, they found a 3.5 cm tear in my rotator cuff. I destroyed the first re-construction snowboarding. The same procedure for both re-constructions and it was amazing how much had been learned for/about that procedure during that decade (with the first re-construction I was the sixth person to have such a procedure perfomed, by the second it had been performed thousands of times). Now I have five screws in one shoulder, four secure the ball socket and the fifth secures the bi-cep tendon. I had destroyed the work done on the first reconstruction at the five year mark and had over fifty minor dislocations over the next five years before I finally went back to the orthopedic surgeon.

I do feel your pain Bill. Good luck with that.
 
swift6 said:
I have one shoulder that has been re-constructed twice(ten years apart). The initial dis-location (four wheeler accident outside of Cabo San Lucas) was of the full anterior type. When they went in to correct it, they found a 3.5 cm tear in my rotator cuff. I destroyed the first re-construction snowboarding. The same procedure for both re-constructions and it was amazing how much had been learned for/about that procedure during that decade (with the first re-construction I was the sixth person to have such a procedure perfomed, by the second it had been performed thousands of times). Now I have five screws in one shoulder, four secure the ball socket and the fifth secures the bi-cep tendon. I had destroyed the work done on the first reconstruction at the five year mark and had over fifty minor dislocations over the next five years before I finally went back to the orthopedic surgeon.

I do feel your pain Bill. Good luck with that.
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Jeez, Shawn, you are making another body part on me draw up thinking about your story. Ouch!, to say the least. I will just baby mine. My general surgeon friend has told me too many horror stories about the surgeries to make me even consider having it done. I will just avoid doing a backflip on a grassy knoll volleyball game in the Catskills trying to impress 22-year-old twin nieces again.
 
Sounds as though we can start a Rotator Cuff Club here on the forum. More common than I thought.....
 
I was at my orthopedist yesterday to determine if I have any shoulder problems, mainly rotator cuff.

In the last 3 months I've had two X-rays, an MRI and an EMG on this shoulder.

And I have been to two diffrent physical therapists. One was terrible and one made a real effort, but was ineffective.

Despite all this work and money by Modern Medicine, I think it's actually healing by itself.

They *think* I do not have a rotator cuff problem (apparently, it's a pinched nerve), so they decided to hold off on the Cortisone shots originally scheduled for yesterday.

Instead, thy're sending me back to the hard-working (and good-looking) but ineffective physical therapist I was going to before. I doubt it'll make a difference and that's not her fault.
Anyway, it'll be a pleasant diversion, so I'm not arguing.
 
Paul,

I feel your pain. Bursitis in elbow and shoulder.
In my fishing arm!!

Still feeling mucho elbow pain from the monster tarpon
last Saturday. All the fighting pressure is on the
elbow: non stop constant.

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I'm just glad my winkie still works...but it's been eligible for unemployment recently...gotta talk to the wife about that.
 
Brosky said:
I'm paying for years of stupid lifting of cylinder heads with Bursitis in each forearm and elbow. I used to be able to play golf 7 days a week. Now, I'm pushing it at 3. I've had a Cortisone/Novacane shot in each elbow and now I'm going through therapy on the left.

That's why I won't do any heavy work on mine any more. Easier to pay than to be in pain and not able to drive it.
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Paul, Gave up on therapy and x rays and finally convinced my Dr. for a MRI. 2" tear in the right elbow. Surgery last November and first golf game last Sunday. Shot pretty well. I think the surgery actually helped my game as I had to control the swing a lot more. I could have played a few months ago but have been too busy. The surgery isn't a bad route. Now the the shoulder surgery now that's a different can of worms. OUCH
 
Bill, sorry to hear about the shoulder. While you recuperate, think about what is behind those front splash plates.

Take a look. Where you see holes, the builders covered with clumps of body filler which eventually the metal rusted under.



 
Cortisone, just from my experience, careful with that... My back issues started when I was 22, too much daredevil stuff, but at 23 or so I received two cortisone shots in two areas of my spine. Last year I couldn't stand the creaking and popping in the mid-back/neck any longer, and sure enough the MRI showed two degenerating discs, exactly where the shots were given. Sixteen years later it seems the cortisone had destroyed some of the bone... I guess it is capable of doing damage, but it did give me relief for quite a while... My doctor said the shots probably contributed to the degeneration of the vertebrae, but can't be certain. I am going to try to avoid any more cort. if at all possible, but when the benefits outweigh the risk, it's worth it. Glad you were spared the shots for now, and sounds like you have better things to do anyway...
Hope you get feeling better, pain is miserable when it lingers!
 
TR6BILL said:
Jeez, Shawn, you are making another body part on me draw up thinking about your story. Ouch!, to say the least.
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/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif Wasn't trying to scare you Bill. The real fun part is when we have a rapid barometric pressure change. I mean a REAL rapid change. Usually indicating a nasty storm within two hours. The bones and metal in the screws expand and contract with the pressure at different rates. Resulting in a throbbing pain in the shoulder. That's real fun let me tell you.

I've seen a few good and bad physical therapists in my time too. One made me regret living through surgery. Others were quite a bit more helpful...
 
I can feel your pain. Been suffering with shoulder problems since my high school days of swimming and lifting weights. Mainly the lifting part. Things went further south after a head-on accident many years ago. I guess everything is working it's way south.
Maybe we should have a medical section on this forum.
 
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