Torn pec tendon...

[irishdave]

Tore pec tendon 10 weeks ago. Was going to let it heal and not bother with surgery but decided on getting an MRI scan (3 weeks time).

Anyone torn theirs before? Can they ever look the same again? Only with surgery?

I was gonna compete but not this year now...it’s fucked me right up

I tore it throwing a freezer onto my back lawn in a 2am drunken row. If I did it in the gym I wouldn’t feel as silly...

[SOMEPARTS]

I tore it throwing a freezer onto my back lawn in a 2am drunken row. If I did it in the gym I wouldn’t feel as silly...

If ever a proper Irish story was, this is it.

[ProudVirgin69]

If ever a proper Irish story was, this is it.

LMFAO


Dave, did you tear the tendon itself or the muscle?  Why not do the surgery?

[irishdave]

LMFAO


Dave, did you tear the tendon itself or the muscle?  Why not do the surgery?

I’ll know when I get the mri scan but it feels like it’s only the muscle but the physio wasn’t sure as the swelling was bad. I’ve not gone back to him in 2 months. I’ll likely get the surgery anyway but I’ll probably have to pay for it as it’s more of an aesthetic than a necessary correction but hopefully I’m wrong about it (my insurance cover)

Either way I’ll likely do it just wondering on others experiences

[irishdave]

If ever a proper Irish story was, this is it.

Wasn’t my freezer either 😉

[Marty Champions]

Did the freezer bad?

[dan18]

Tore pec tendon 10 weeks ago. Was going to let it heal and not bother with surgery but decided on getting an MRI scan (3 weeks time).

Anyone torn theirs before? Can they ever look the same again? Only with surgery?

I was gonna compete but not this year now...it’s fucked me right up

I tore it throwing a freezer onto my back lawn in a 2am drunken row. If I did it in the gym I wouldn’t feel as silly...

Never tore mine but I strained mine couldn't do chest for 2 months if I tried it felt like a knife being shoved into the side of my chest

[Thin Lizzy]

It really depends on the extent of the tear. I had a minor tear in one of mine, and if you look closely you can see the difference but it wasn’t worth getting surgery. That said, it put an end to my heavy benching days.

[oldtimer1]

If you need surgery to reattach the tendon the success of the repair goes down fast with time. I completely detached my bicep. Not a partial detachment. It rolled up my arm and looked like a ball by my delt. Got it repaired 5 days later. Surgeon told me that he has guys coming to him months later asking for surgery and he has to do stuff like get cadaver tendons for the repair and it's never the same.

On a positive note I have heard of people with partial tears being okay with time. Take that bro science suggestion anyway you want. My wife and a friend both partially tore their Achilles. Both had a knot in the tendon where it partially tore. Both in about a years time are okay. Then again my wife doesn't do anything athletically and my friend took time off all cardio for a long time so he wouldn't put stress on the tendon. I bet both would have had a complete rupture if they tried to do cardio such as running.

I hurt my bicep tendon doing something stupid too. I was in a bar drunk playing pool (billiards) when some of the balls didn't come out after putting money in the machine. I thought I would just pick up one end of the table and the balls would flow out with gravity.  The bottom of the table curved in so I was deadlifting it with bent arms in my drunken stupor. I actually got one end up off the floor a couple of inches not knowing the pool table is weighed down with slate rocks to keep the balance once adjusted. I thought I was electrocuted feeling a zap.  The table is plugged in for lights on the bottom. I felt my bicep and it wasn't there. Going to the emergency room the day after the emergency room doctor called an orthopedic surgeon on the phone and told the ortho doc said I didn't need and MRI to see what happened. He hung up the phone and looked at me saying the bastard said I could live with one arm thinking I didn't have insurance. Within days I consulted an orthopedic doctor who only specializes in shoulders down. The whole practice only has specialists. One guy only does knees. One guy only does hips and so on. He fixed my arm and it took 6 months to get my strength back in my arm. I know guys brag about partial tendon repairs who are back a lot sooner but my arm was a wreck of damage. One thing I learned about orthopedic surgeons is that there are two types. One that claim they are an expert on every joint and can do everything. The other specializes and that's what you want. You don't want a guy that does a knee in the morning and a shoulder in the afternoon. You want a guy that is laser focused on the latest innovations on ortho repair and not a doctor who coasts through the profession.  

[Hypertrophy]

If you need surgery to reattach the tendon the success of the repair goes down fast with time. I completely detached my bicep. Not a partial detachment. It rolled up my arm and looked like a ball by my delt. Got it repaired 5 days later. Surgeon told me that he has guys coming to him months later asking for surgery and he has to do stuff like get cadaver tendons for the repair and it's never the same.

^THIS    Past a few weeks the success of the surgery goes down exponentially.

[SOMEPARTS]

Wasn’t my freezer either 😉

I did the same thing with a toilet. Of course that was 20 years ago, haha.

[Thin Lizzy]

^THIS    Past a few weeks the success of the surgery goes down exponentially.

I’ve heard this as well. Anyone know why?

[MAXX]

Problem with real life stuff is you dont know how much load you accidentally may subject a muscle to. The gym on the other hand is a controlled environment where you pick your weights and movementpatterns. You probably did it in a motion like a fly but you momentarely placed a load of 100 lbs on one hand and peck in that type of motion.

Never help your friends moving..

[oldtimer1]

I’ve heard this as well. Anyone know why?

I think the short answer is one technique to reattach a tendon is to tie it to metal anchors at the spot it ripped off the bone. In time if the spot is fresh it will grow back into the bone. If too much time passes the tendon starts dying and the reattachment point deteriorates. That's the bro short answer.

[SOMEPARTS]

I’ve heard this as well. Anyone know why?

I would imagine the body starts healing and calcifying what it has to work with within a day or two. I've heard that swelling serves two purposes - one is to stabilize the area and the other is to rush in the raw material to start healing.

[Primemuscle]

Tore pec tendon 10 weeks ago. Was going to let it heal and not bother with surgery but decided on getting an MRI scan (3 weeks time).

Anyone torn theirs before? Can they ever look the same again? Only with surgery?

I was gonna compete but not this year now...it’s fucked me right up

I tore it throwing a freezer onto my back lawn in a 2am drunken row. If I did it in the gym I wouldn’t feel as silly...

What did the freezer do to upset you?