Quote Originally Posted by Zool View Post
Correct, non acute. Held up against resistance. I've been (not nearly often enough) doing rehab for about a year. Yesterday I extended my arm quickly and got a searing pain for about 2 hours. Felt like the first one all over again. I assume I just need to do the rehab religiously for it to get better?
I have a mild tear in shoulder labrum for years, and it acts very similarly to what Mad described. You can and should rehab it, but every now and then you are going to do something that aggravates it and then you will have days or even weeks of suffering. It's not something you can avoid unless you just stay away from that arm altogether--and then it will get weaker and more liable to get injured. You gotta train your brain to load SLOWLY with that arm: when you go to pull a gallon of milk off the top shelf of the fridge, do it slowly or you might tweak it. I put myself in harm's way continuously by coaching my kids's LL baseball teams. Every spring my shoulder starts hurting like the motherfucker. I do warm ups and ice it religiously, I pop high strength NSAIDs, and I still have a week where I cannot sleep through the night because the inflammation has nowhere to go when you're lying down. I guess it comes down to whether your lifestyle enables you to baby it or not, and your tolerance for pain. I don't baby mine, I have a high pain tolerance, and only once has the pain gotten so bad I wanted to put a bullet through my head. So no surgery for me.