hypertrophyy
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Simply, after 25+ years of lifting and other abuses, I can no longer press incline, overhead, or bench more than 60lb dumbbells without significant pain. I've tried months of rest, rehab, injections to the bursa and outer biceps tendon with minimal improvement. The injections worked for the initial pain, which crept back after several weeks. I'm only in pain during those movements and sore post training as it resides overnight. My surgeon is recommending a subcromial decompression for this. When looking over the MRI, there isn't a bone spur or anything abnormal looking with the acromion, to point to anything impinging. The doc says smoothing the bottom of the acromion should fix this issue tho. It makes sense to me and I'm ok with this. This is basically what ended Roelly Winklaar's career.
But....
In the MRI, the report discusses moderate arthrosis in my AC joint. I wasn't expecting this as I have ZERO pain here. I find this fairly strange since my body makes me fully aware of any other arthritis across my body. It makes sense tho why both my ac joints pop from time to time. Anyway, my guy is also planning a distal clavicle resection for the AC joint. Not knowing anything about AC resection, I took a deep YT dive on the procedure after hearing this. I am seeing a bunch of mixed opinions and results there. The comments are mostly gibberish and the vast majority of the commenters DON'T EVEN LIFT. So it's been hard finding viable opinions. Many complain about permanent pain doing certain movements post recovery. I know this is a fairly common issue among weight lifters and I'm sure some of you guys have dealt with this. I asked my guy. Why do this if I feel absolutely no pain there? He basically said, you'll be back later if it's not done now. I'm just worried about turning this AC issue into a bigger issue and permanently limiting my future training. I'm having a second opinion in a few days. Advice welcome.
But....
In the MRI, the report discusses moderate arthrosis in my AC joint. I wasn't expecting this as I have ZERO pain here. I find this fairly strange since my body makes me fully aware of any other arthritis across my body. It makes sense tho why both my ac joints pop from time to time. Anyway, my guy is also planning a distal clavicle resection for the AC joint. Not knowing anything about AC resection, I took a deep YT dive on the procedure after hearing this. I am seeing a bunch of mixed opinions and results there. The comments are mostly gibberish and the vast majority of the commenters DON'T EVEN LIFT. So it's been hard finding viable opinions. Many complain about permanent pain doing certain movements post recovery. I know this is a fairly common issue among weight lifters and I'm sure some of you guys have dealt with this. I asked my guy. Why do this if I feel absolutely no pain there? He basically said, you'll be back later if it's not done now. I'm just worried about turning this AC issue into a bigger issue and permanently limiting my future training. I'm having a second opinion in a few days. Advice welcome.
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