If you get it done in Jan, will you be able to kite up until then? But getting it done earlier means it will be more recovered for next season.
It's a big choice. I'd go for Jan if you can kite up until then.

Hey Stamp! You looked fine when I saw you in Exxy early Oct. What happened?

get it done sooner. People will look after you over the festive season and you wont have to miss out on sessions because you are too hung over...

Nah, in all seriousness, if you need the surgery, dont delay, you will recover that bit sooner and maybe enjoy next season that bit more through the extra months strength you will have built up.

stamp said...

gday neil, hows it going? i was taking it very easy when you were up here and only riding in the surf. i got the op done on the 7th oct and i was unable to raise either arm above 90 degrees by then.
waveriding was not much stress for the shoulders; ride down the line and there is no pressure, even unhooked, but i couldn't load up with a twintip and i couldn't swim in if it went pear shaped.

I see! Say g'day to Andy and Nat for me.

PS discovered we have a mutual aquaintence. I regularly kite with Ray Swartz (spelling?) down at dutchies. Used to windsurf with him too back in the 80's

I had mine rebuilt a few years back, sounds pretty similar, torn all the tendons, then busted all the cartlidge off the socket, shoulder wouldnt stay in the socket and would dislocate basically with a sneeze! I had the open cut, from top of the shoulder to the start of my underarm, I was riding in 10 weeks! Make sure your physio is a sports dude, its massive to get the physio right, you need to be working on it as soon as the ops over, dont wait a week or anything, within 2 weeks you should nearly have fully mobility but it'll feel like its tight as. and it'll hurt like youve never felt hurt before, but its the only way.

just go to benji marshall's specialist. he has done his shoulders reconstructed 4 times, and done his knee as well. there goes his pay packet.
the surgeon MUST be hell experienced.

Think of this ->

You could delay the surgery, go out riding with a bung shoulder, have a minor stack and make it way worse than it is now. I would get it over with and hit the physio as often as you can physically take it and or afford, whichever comes first...

If you get away with keyhole surgery recovery is super quick if you are fit. I had a shoulder reconstruction plus a clavicle excision done at the end of April, paddleboarding after 4 weeks, gym weight work after 6, kiting on a surfboard at 8 -10weeks, twin tip at 12 weeks and at 20 weeks stronger than before surgery. My experience was full movement within a week(lots of pain), and an unbelievable amount of physio, 3-4 times a week for 4 months. Wish I had had the op earlier but waited for the end of season, great result hope you have the same.

here is my tip when you come out of op and in recovery room tell them your in heaps of pain and they will give you a morphien drip over night. most fun you will have in hospital. I had my knee done in winter worked a treat for me.

pezza said...

here is my tip when you come out of op and in recovery room tell them your in heaps of pain and they will give you a morphien drip over night. most fun you will have in hospital. I had my knee done in winter worked a treat for me.

First time I did the shoulder was in the US and they druged me up to the gills to the point they'd given me all the morphine they legal could and then some sort of pill as well (damned if I know what it was at that point). Didn't feel a thing when they put it back in, pretty neet to watch some 100kg "male orderly" hang off your wrist as the doc pushed the arm back in place.

Having said that I almost threw up in the middle of the Golden Gate bridge on the way home that night. Talk about a blur of lights

Hope it goes well

tightlines said...

Bad news about your shoulder CC but I think you are doing the right thing getting it done now.
I am also sitting on the sidelines at the moment with a fractured fibula but after reading about some of these other injuries 6 weeks out doesn't sound quite so bad.

hey man you think thats bad ive been of the wazter for the pat 5 weeks with another 2 weeks left from punching my brother and now i have a brockenb scaffoid

cRAZY Canuk said...

So I went in to see a surgeon today and my choices are beginning of December (3rd) or middle of Jan (14th)...

Do you how did this happened?
Is it because of unhook riding?
Or even with the hooked riding it might be happening to us?

Cheers
Alex