Reverse Shoulder Replacement

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Two regular replacements done in ‘13 and ‘17.

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The hell are you doing to have 2 shoulder replacements in 4 years?

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Get the left redone for what I believe was rotator cuff tear in the tendon

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What? So you're hopping into surgery without knowing your diagnosis?

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Reverse Shoulder Replacement

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Sounds like they put a bad shoulder into a good shoulder. Is that what reverse means?

In all seriousness, you're post op sounds horrendous and you're not taking physical therapy. You doing anything to strengthen your muscles and tendons?

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To a surgeon, the solution to every problem is surgery

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I've had both shoulders done(rotator,) same surgeon, and he wanted to try everything he could to see if surgery could be avoided

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To a surgeon, the solution to every problem is surgery

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I've had both shoulders done(rotator,) same surgeon, and he wanted to try everything he could to see if surgery could be avoided

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same here (except one one shoulder)
I suffered for almost 12 years of gradually worsening pain and had to find a shoulder specialist before they did the surgery.

Did the surgeries relieve the pain and give you back range of motion? It seems from my experience that it’s a crapshoot. Some say they are worse after surgery and some say better. I would imagine it depends a lot on the surgeon as well as whether the patient does all the recommended PT.

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PT for shoulder surgery is key.

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before and after

Did all the recommended PT and then some for all of them. Should have specified had rt done in ‘13, left in’17. Left redone in ‘23 (reverse)
Severe arthritic issues in both. Rotator cuff tears in both.

Bowhunted every year with no issues until pain in left from rotator issues sent me back to new Dr at same Ortho clinic.

60 plus, in reasonably good health but this is not what I signed up for. In other words anyone contemplating a reverse shoulder replacement, IMHO, should haul arse to a new orthopedic surgeon and get a second and third opinion at the very least.
JMHO

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that was my mistake/regret on the first one, putting it off too long

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my issue was finding the problem.
2 different general partitioners, and 3 different orthopedics told me there was no physical damage.
Tried the PT route a couple times and that actually made it worse so I stopped going.
Even tried some new fancy laser therapy type shite at a chiropractor that did absolutely nothing but lighten my wallet.

then I found a specialist that studied under Dr. James Andrews
with is physical examination, he was able to damn near perfectly identify my issue.
did an MRI with the contrast dye to confirm.

he did offer a more specific PT to cater more closely toward my exact injury, but said at my age (was early/mid 40s) and as long as the injury had been there, said it was a crap shoot if it would help. So they went in a fixed it.


Torn labrum (SLAP tear), frayed rotator cuff, ruptured bicep tendon, and bone spurs.
so I now have 7 anchors on my shoulder.

fricked up thing is if it had been properly found earlier on, would likely have just been the torn labrum.
the bone spurs were my body's reaction to the tear, which likely frayed the rotator cuff
then me adjusting how I moved and did things to compensate for the pain likely ruptured the tendon. and I probably did it after the MRI, because he saw no evidence of it on the MRI (probably doing house repairs after Ida).

Sorry to hear that.

I had a complete shoulder re-build in 1984, that included the creation of a fake rotator cuff. Luckily, I have had zero issues in the 40 years since.

Make sure you ask for a nerve block. You should get anywhere from 24-48 hours of pain relief with one.

the point of a reverse shoulder replacement is to salvage as much use of your arm as possible. it is known that ROM outcomes with reverse shoulder replacements are less than total shoulder replacements. reverse shoulder replacements are done if you also have a rotator cuff tear or if you also have a humerus fracture in addition to arthritic changes.

a reverse total shoulder takes the socket portion of your shoulder blade and changes it to a ball and the ball portion of your humerus and changes it to a socket.

having that many dislocations is abnormal. you are either doing more than you claim you are, the surgeon sucked OR the surgeon did the best they could with what they had left to work with.