Lisa, I am excited to hear about your garden tips and home. I retired last year and had my rotator cuff and bicep surgery January 11, 2024. I am at week nine and your videos have been sooo helpful. Thank you for doing them.
I hope your recovery has been good! I'm at the 8 month point and feel great and back to pickleball and gardening without thinking about it too much. I do notice a few areas that are still weaker than the other arm, like trying to do something diagonally, either push or lift. I need to pull out those dumb bells and work on that!
Hi Lisa, so good to see your great progress. My first appointment booking after the mri was canceled in July. When I didn’t get a call from them to rebook in September I called them and now I have an appointment on October 26th. Nervous to go find out what kind of surgery it will take to fix my torn rotator cuff. In the meantime I got sent to a dermatologist and found out I have basal cell carcinoma in the tip of my nose, the surgery for that is booked for November 7th, even more nervous about that. Love watching your videos to take my mind off those things. Thank you for this video and take care!
Gosh it’s such a delay I hope you don’t have a frozen shoulder by then!! of course it’s such a relief to be on the getting better side of the curve. I’m sorry about your skin cancer, I’m glad you caught it early
Hi Lisa. You've been such a big help and support through my surgery, which was 9 weeks ago. I'm moving right along and almost mirroring your experience. I'm curious about the feeling you were having in the non surgical shoulder. Was it just overcompensating for the surgical shoulder that gave you the similar discomfort? Did it work itself out or do you see another surgery in the future sometime? Thank you for sharing your story. It is appreciated ❤😊!
I like so many others have greatly enjoyed your rotator cuff videos. I'm having a reverse shoulder replacement in 2 days. Like you, I have a full tear of superspinatus. Thank you for your presentation. Easy to listen to and so helpful!!
Yes and he didn’t realize I had frozen shoulder until we went to operate because my previous appointment was five weeks prior and so it froze during those five weeks I was gone. He said he could not lift it more than 90°. I guess for some people they have to almost “break” the frozen shoulder to lift the arm enough to operate but he could do mine. And then it obviously slows recovery because it affects your range of motion.
@@LisaMonique Wow, and even through that, your recovery has been pretty quick! Amazing! Did your doctor comment about waiting for the shoulder to “unfreeze “ before doing the surgery had he known about it?
@@SmilingTruly888 No, we didn't talk about it, but I know in severe cases of frozen shoulder, surgery is the only way to correct, so I'm sure if they couldn't have done what needed to be done, he would have just forced it (which is basically what they do in frozen shoulder surgery)
Thank you for you for this Dr just mentioned surgery to me after 7 months 2 cortisone shots & therapy I just worry is I could handle the after surgery on my own with no help I have always been very active exercised all my life so I’m hoping I can do this I’m tired of the pain
Thank you, Lisa, for very helpful and informative videos. I'm having a surgery soon: rotator cuff repair and biceps tenodesis. Your videos are encouraging and inspirational. I'm more concerned about biceps tenodesis. I understand that you also had it. As you are fully recovered now, do you still have any issues with biceps specifically? Do you have any downsides like spasms , lack of strength, residual pain or others? I'd appreciate if you could comment on that. Thank you again for your wonderful videos.
My arm is definitely weaker than my right arm which is my non-dominant arm. I don’t notice it specifically with bicep strength, I noticed it with any overhead type motion. But I did stop PT at the six-month point, and just started lifting dumbbells and other Small weights in July when I realized how weak my arm still was. And it does improve so I don’t think it’s permanent, just lack of use. And if I don’t work on it at least a few times a week I lose it quickly versus my right arm which I don’t feel like it gets weaker with lack of use
Your videos are so well done! Thank you for being so kind to share your experience. I will also have surgery on my left shoulder at the beginning of March.
I love gardening too much, and it’s specialty flowers, a “gardener” is usually a “landscaper” that doesn’t really know how to take care of the individual plants. But my shoulder is doing GREAT at 8 months post op!
I’m so glad you’re ahead of the curve for healing! I’m almost at the two week mark and on target. Your videos have been helpful. And I agree with you that the pain was much worse prior to surgery and so glad I’m on the mend. I too, unfortunately, seem to have eaten more junk than usual. I’m not going to notice weight gain while wearing elastic waist pants.
You're doing so good. Im on my ten week post surgery and for me it's mostly about pain control. I still can't sleep on my surgical side. You are giving me inspiration. Thank you.I need to listen about your journey. It's inspirational.
I still can’t sleep on my surgical side and I’m at 15 weeks, it doesn’t hurt it’s just not comfortable. Hard to explain but you might know what I mean. I can read turned over on the side, but when I totally relax and the weight is on that shoulder it’s still not comfortable
I’ve been a subscriber for a long time and what a coincidence that I am having rotator cuff surgery too. My surgery is tomorrow morning. Your videos have been so very helpful. I ordered the same ice system and I know that will be a big help. Thanks for the inspiration.
So thankful for your videos. My doc said small tears and terrible bursitis so no surgery. I had an injection and see him again this week. I’ve been in PT but so tired of going that I’m doing the exercises at home for a while. I’m much better but not there just yet. I think the bursitis is better but the frozen shoulder is still giving trouble. That sleeper stretch is a killer!
Hi great info! I am wondering how you damaged your rotator cuff to begin with? I think I am headed for surgery will find out in a couple weeks. I did mine with weight training probably incorrectly.
Hi Lisa, it’s so good to see you today in good health and progressing. I love these update videos and your gardening 🧑🌾 videos. Will we see more of them?
I loved loved loved therapy. It was just somebody else doing nice slow stretches! If there was any pain my therapist backed off, I’ve talked to a couple of guy friends who had the surgery and they were saying how painful the therapy was and I literally never did anything through pain. If it hurt we stopped or lighten the weights. But I was going twice a week everything was a gradual buildup!
