Replacement shoulder surgury

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KIEL'S - 03 Dec 2007 19:36 GMT

Looking for person who has had or knows of issues relating to recovery?
Question to include age, reason for, problems and success.
I'm 69 with no cartlidge as I'm told in my shoulder and appear to be a
candidate.
Thanks, bob

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Harvey R. Stone - 04 Dec 2007 16:03 GMT

> Looking for person who has had or knows of issues relating to recovery?
> Question to include age, reason for, problems and success.
> I'm 69 with no cartlidge as I'm told in my shoulder and appear to be a
> candidate.
> Thanks, bob

Hi Bob,,, I have sent this to another newsgroup in hopes of a reply that
will help you. I do remember that people say that once done,, since it is
not a weight bearing joint,,, and recovery is over,,,,, its over and no more
problems.
Harv

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Karen P - 04 Dec 2007 20:27 GMT

Hi Bob,
I've had both of my shoulders replaced. It did take a while post op but the
shoulders are essentially pain free.

i was 39 and 41 at the time of the surgeries (due to RA). it was slow
recovery and rehab is painful. but worth it once you get through it.
neither shoulder has full range of motion. i can raise the arms to app
shoulder height. that is mainly due to crummy rotator cuffs. one rule of
thumb is that you generally recover only to your pre op range of motion.
but keep in mind that motion won't hurt. shoulder replacement is done
mainly for pain relief and pain free function.

as harv said shoulders do tend to last a while because they are non weight
bearing so the hope is you won't have to do this again

karen

>> Looking for person who has had or knows of issues relating to recovery?
>> Question to include age, reason for, problems and success.
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> more problems.
> Harv

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Don Kirkman - 05 Dec 2007 08:26 GMT

It seems to me I heard somewhere that KIEL'S wrote in article
<13l8n7vjtjhak6a@corp.supernews.com>:

>Looking for person who has had or knows of issues relating to recovery?
>Question to include age, reason for, problems and success.
>I'm 69 with no cartlidge as I'm told in my shoulder and appear to be a
>candidate.
>Thanks, bob

My wife had a shoulder replacement several years ago; as near as I can
recall she was about 60 at the time. Her osteoarthritis was probably
the result of a hormone imbalance which was corrected about the same
time.

I don't remember the details clearly, but I think they replaced the
entire shoulder (which I'm sure is different technically from total knee
and hip replacements). The joint pain disappeared almost as soon as she
recovered from the soft tissue stresses of the surgery, and I would
guess she recovered something around 90% or more of her original range
of motion. By the time of the surgery she could barely raise her arm
above waist level, and since the surgery she can reach most of our
kitchen shelves (some are really too high for a person of her height to
reach).

She had a short period of physical therapy, and continued some of the
exercises at home for about the same length of time. The repaired
shoulder continues to be essentially pain free, definitely better than
the one that wasn't repaired.

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