do rotators peramently get damaged

[Oz lifter]

hi

I was just wondering if anyone out there knows what happens if you continually train on a damaged rotator cuff. I was under the impression that it reaches a certain point where it doesnt get any better or worse ie no more damage can be done. Unfortunately I tore mine a while back, I had 7 weeks off like the doc said and did all the right things. Started light weights 2 weeks ago ie 15-20 reps, did warm ups on the rotators before hand and iced down afterwards. It seems like the injury is coming back

I dont want to have another 7 weeks off so Im going to keep training anyway, I can handle the pain and am willing to train with pain, i was just wondering what permanent damage can occur.

Please dont flame me for doing this, it pretty much I either stop and give up weigths all together or train with pain, I would rather the latter.

thanks

 

[WilliamB]

How did you injure the rotator cuff? Have you had surgery on the rotator cuff?

 

[lnvanry]

I have a friend who played on the Pacer in the 80's...same problem. He tore it his rookie year. It nagged him his entire life even recently at the age of 42. He had to have corrective surgery. Cuffs are not resilient muscles

 

[Oz lifter]

hi

thanks for the response

William I tore it doing dips a while back, went down to far

Nah I didnt have surgery and I dont want to the doc said it should heal in 6 weeks but I guess it didnt.

Invanry yeah i didnt think it would go away, but im willing to put up with the pain for the next 20 years, which usually isnt that bad anyway but you can tell its there.

Once I tore it, I trained for a few months whilst it was torn until I went to the doc, so it is possible to continue training. Just a little concerned about permanent damage.

again thanks for the response

 

[PreMier]

The last thing you want to do is tear it so bad that it ENDS your lifting all together. I would rest it, its not worth losing a lifetime of lifting over IMO

 

[CowPimp]

I know you're anxious to get back to lifting, but wait longer. Doctors can only give estimates. They can't measure exact recovery times; they can only guess based on averages and how severe they think your injury is. Just because you weren't ready in exactly 7 weeks doesn't mean the time to go back to lifting isn't coming soon.

 

[kraziplaya]

my cuff has issues too... i always avoid the exercises that irritate it... if there is any more than a tingling i stop the exercises and move on.... also... the ice down aferwards and warm up is great but do you also work your rotator? that seems to be a big help in my recovery...go real light and work your way up

 

[DOMS]

I was out for over three months. Except for the paranoia about re-damaging it, I'm back to 100% (though the damage is never 100% repaired).

 

[Tough Old Man]

hi

I was just wondering if anyone out there knows what happens if you continually train on a damaged rotator cuff. I was under the impression that it reaches a certain point where it doesnt get any better or worse ie no more damage can be done. Unfortunately I tore mine a while back, I had 7 weeks off like the doc said and did all the right things. Started light weights 2 weeks ago ie 15-20 reps, did warm ups on the rotators before hand and iced down afterwards. It seems like the injury is coming back

I dont want to have another 7 weeks off so Im going to keep training anyway, I can handle the pain and am willing to train with pain, i was just wondering what permanent damage can occur.

Please dont flame me for doing this, it pretty much I either stop and give up weigths all together or train with pain, I would rather the latter.

thanks

I'll do my best to tell you my situation. I stopped lifting in 1983 because of my left cuff. Didn't start back lifting until 5/04. Within 3 months I was back to the same fucking problem. So I can safely say the rest didn't help it as i took of almost 21 years. Now my problem is that I baby the left side so much that I'm now starting to also have problems with the right rotator cuff. I don't know if you can work through it or not or whether the pain will eventually ever go away. Man It's murder on me.

PT

 

[hawk05]

Shoulder problems never go away...5 years, 4 dislocations and 1 surgery later, my shoulder still rapes me of the progress I feel I could have without the shoulder problems. I'm no doctor, but I beleive that if its torn fully, only surgery will repair it. Good luck.

 

[Skate67]

i messed my right rotator cuff up by doing weighted dips (geared for triceps). Now whenever i i swing my arm in a circle it pops audibly . Also if i don't warm up for most pressing exercises it starts to irritate me.

 

[Tough Old Man]

i messed my right rotator cuff up by doing weighted dips (geared for triceps). Now whenever i i swing my arm in a circle it pops audibly . Also if i don't warm up for most pressing exercises it starts to irritate me.

Man do I know that feeling and popping noise

 

[Arnold]

I injured my RC's a couple of years ago, I do not have any problems with them now but I will never have the same pressing strength that I used to.

 

[Tough Old Man]

I injured my RC's a couple of years ago, I do not have any problems with them now but I will never have the same pressing strength that I used to.

Boy and that the truth losing strength on pressing movements

 

[Oz lifter]

hi

Yeah ive decided to give it one more shot at healing, this time I will wait until it feels properly healed. However thats where there is a problem when I let it heal for 7 weeks it felt okay, but after a week of weigths it obvisouly wasnt. This makes it really difficult to judge whether its okay to start weights again.

I hear ya guys, the paranoia is what hurts me the worst, its a constant worry about if it will come back. I cant believe how fuc#ing long it takes to heal a rotator, man I broke my leg a few years back and even that healed in 6 weeks and has never given me problems whilst lifting.