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As you can probably guess from the frowny face, it's not good.
Long story short, rotator cuff tear. But of course, me being me, I never do anything half assed, I have not one but TWO tears (don't have the report in front of me, but I think biceps and supraspinatus).
So the doc I'm seeing is a sports medicine guy, into alternative stuff. We basically got four choices:
1. Operate. Which means arm in an immobilizer, then PT. Long, miserable recovery, no use of my arm for a while then upwards of a year before I'm back to full function.
2. Nothing. Shoot it with cortisone and PT and hope for the best. Fuck that shit, it ain't gotten better yet, it ain't gonna get better.
3. Prolotherapy. Not covered by insurance, set of six to eight injections, gonna cost about $1,200 and about 70% chance of improving things. No down time.
4. PRP (platelet rich plasma). They suck out some of my blood, run it in a centrifuge, discard the plasma and inject the packed cells directly into the injured area, using ultrasound to direct the injections, over the course of three sessions. Probably not covered by my insurance (they'll check) if not, $2,700. At least they take credit cards. Again, no down time and better success rate than the prolotherapy.
So I'm going for option #4. If that doesn't work then I've still got option #1 to fall back on.
Long story short, rotator cuff tear. But of course, me being me, I never do anything half assed, I have not one but TWO tears (don't have the report in front of me, but I think biceps and supraspinatus).
So the doc I'm seeing is a sports medicine guy, into alternative stuff. We basically got four choices:
1. Operate. Which means arm in an immobilizer, then PT. Long, miserable recovery, no use of my arm for a while then upwards of a year before I'm back to full function.
2. Nothing. Shoot it with cortisone and PT and hope for the best. Fuck that shit, it ain't gotten better yet, it ain't gonna get better.
3. Prolotherapy. Not covered by insurance, set of six to eight injections, gonna cost about $1,200 and about 70% chance of improving things. No down time.
4. PRP (platelet rich plasma). They suck out some of my blood, run it in a centrifuge, discard the plasma and inject the packed cells directly into the injured area, using ultrasound to direct the injections, over the course of three sessions. Probably not covered by my insurance (they'll check) if not, $2,700. At least they take credit cards. Again, no down time and better success rate than the prolotherapy.
So I'm going for option #4. If that doesn't work then I've still got option #1 to fall back on.
