TransportJockey
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Ugh at work, getting sick, and can't sleep. What a way to start my week.
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TransportJockey
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Only 6 more days!
Feel better brother.
Heh thanks man. Glad to see you're not completely crippled now
Maybe I'll go down to the bus and work on a photo project I've been scheming up
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Heh thanks man. Glad to see you're not completely crippled now
Maybe I'll go down to the bus and work on a photo project I've been scheming up
Doooo it.
When I'm not broke and have dug myself out of this hole I wanna buy a print so take a good one
Although I do have one picked out that I like already.
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I think I might have read sometime back that your main issue was the labrum tear. The surgery quite likely put your labrum back on to the path to good healing, but the scar tissue that's in there will have to be remodeled to provide greatest strength that the scar tissue can provide and it won't be as strong as the tissue was before it tore. Your PT exercises should very much help with that. What you don't want to do for a while is put explosive loads on your healing tissues. That will cause further injury and set you way back.
The reason I'm concentrating on the SITS muscles is because after surgery, the RC isn't needed as much, so they become atrophied from disuse and because your shoulder has been limited in ROM, your body has to relearn how to both move and keep the shoulder stable. Your RC (aka SITS) muscles provide active stability. Part of that is making your body learn where it is in space (proprioception) and teaching your body how to use the SITS muscles again.
Kettle bells might be a way to allow that to happen, but be very careful about the weight and stress that you put on your shoulder with them. Depending upon where you are in your resistance band work, you might be able to replace some of those movements with kettle bells from time to time.
Probably the biggest thing you can do is have a chat with your PT and let it be known that you feel you're ready to begin to be more aggressive with your rehab and you want to be functionally ready to resume work quickly. You'll still need do to rehab work for another year from now as it may take that long for you to be 100%. Functional may be 80% of what you'd normally be capable of.
You'll have to both pay great attention to the PT when they're providing you instruction about what to do, but you'll also have to be willing to do the homework they give you. Athletes tend to be very motivated to play, so they usually do the homework, so their functional recovery tends to be very fast compared to "average" people.
Don't start modifying your exercise routine until after you've had a chance to talk to the PT about changing things up and how to do it safely and as aggressively as your body will allow.
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As my wife continues to tell me I have a weak (or no) filter between my mouth and my brain sometimes, I applaud your taking your banishment like a man. And I may end up in a similar predicament as you. Just tell me, is there water-boarding involved?:sad:
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Nothing like digging up a 6 year old post from a member that been gone for half of that. 
Emergency Metaphysics
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Nothing like digging up a 6 year old post from a member that been gone for half of that.
Ha! Yeah, one of these days I'll learn to look at the dates on some of these posts and threads ... just like one of these days I'll develop a stronger brain-mouth filter.
Cheers,
M.
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Edit: bad day. I apologize. Just had to get blood drawn since some crack head bit me this morning.
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Please. For the love of all that is good and holy… If you see spam, some undesirable that makes it through the rigorous filtering process, just report it. We clean it up really quickly.
Is that even legal? What does he have in it, Tylenol?
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I know several medics who have narcotics in their issue kits they carry home with them
Well, deed is done. Took the PAST today and swore in. I am now officially a pararescue wannabe. Ship date looks like it'll be about a week after graduation. h34r:
Edit: That was also a very tentative ship date. All dependent on how many people they have sign up between November and December (they have a shipment going in mid October apparently, but it was put in my contract that I would ship the soonest class after graduation).
h34r:Edit: That was also a very tentative ship date. All dependent on how many people they have sign up between November and December (they have a shipment going in mid October apparently, but it was put in my contract that I would ship the soonest class after graduation).
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If/when uou make it ti Albuquerque for medic school let me know, I'll buy uou a beerWell, deed is done. Took the PAST today and swore in. I am now officially a pararescue wannabe. Ship date looks like it'll be about a week after graduation.
Edit: That was also a very tentative ship date. All dependent on how many people they have sign up between November and December (they have a shipment going in mid October apparently, but it was put in my contract that I would ship the soonest class after graduation).
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Well, deed is done. Took the PAST today and swore in. I am now officially a pararescue wannabe. Ship date looks like it'll be about a week after graduation.
Edit: That was also a very tentative ship date. All dependent on how many people they have sign up between November and December (they have a shipment going in mid October apparently, but it was put in my contract that I would ship the soonest class after graduation).
Good luck brother. Get after it in the pool, you got this!
I'll hold you to that one! It'll be a when, so I'll let you know.
Thank ya, I have been every morning almost, 4:30 am to go do laps in the pool. I've been working out with a former PJ, now a reserve chaplain, that is going back to active duty. He's been keeping me on his regimen. Which has been rough. Should be good as long as I can keep this up during clinicals/ vehiculars (no, they don't give me credit for the paramedic program. But it was free so....)
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Sounds good man! Maybe I'll be a proctor too lol. I applied as adjunct proctor for that program
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Mind sharing his pool regimen?
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Even as a former competitive swimmer and open water lifeguard the pool stuff they do is brutal.
I had the pleasure of taking a TOMS class and had a PJ in our group, solid dude. You'll do good man.
I had the pleasure of taking a TOMS class and had a PJ in our group, solid dude. You'll do good man.
On my phone, so keeping it kind of short.
Normally we have one day with a 2,000 meter fin, one day were we tread for a decent while and then go to underwater 50m/ freestyle 50m laps. one day of leap frogs (you go in the same lane, one guy does a freestyle on top, the second is doing underwaters. Get to the end, guy a does 10 burpees, guy b does 10 flutter kicks/10 sit ups and then swap), normally followed by more freestyles. Day 4 is normally an open water swim at the lake (3,300 meters total. Feels like I've been murdered on those days). He mixes in drown proofing stuff for me too, like buddy breathing, underwater knots, etc...
Those are all the basics, little things mixed in. Doesn't seem bad, but it's rough.
It's all dependent on his mood, though. We had one day where he just made me tread for almost 2 hours.