Shooting with shoulder injury

[hemiram]

I hurt my left shoulder (Impingement, and some sort of nerve problem) about 32 years ago in a fight. It's my good shoulder now. I went to PT and they insisted on putting ice on it, even though I told them, repeatedly, it caused a lot of pain. Five years ago I fell down, and tore up my right shoulder, to the point my arm would "float around" out of the socket, and the doctor wanted me to have surgery on it. About a year ago, I suddenly regained almost all the motion in my right shoulder, even though I never had anything done to it. At this point, it hurts a little bit all the time, less than the left one does. I have a problem lifting anything (With my elbow bent) over about 25-30 pounds without it feeling like my bicep is going to detach. My doctor wants to repair two of the tendons at the top of my biceps, I have a couple more ( I have 4) than most people do (2), and the extra ones are the only ones really connected. I'm probably not doing it, mostly because I have leg issues from the hall and can't risk losing the use of an arm for several weeks or more to fix it, besides, I've injured myself in PT twice. If I fall I need both arms to catch myself.

 

[Route666]

Thanks for the replies! I'm going along quite well really, I can't lie on that shoulder, don't know if I ever will, sitting in some positions for a while makes it ache, and at some angles I have weakness / a little pain in movement (mainly bent over lifting up or swinging my arm outward while pulling something), but other than that I'm going alright.

I'll see the specialist (orthopod - lol I like that) in another 3 weeks again.

jogonmd95 - what can you tell me about the shoulder-blade? I noticed mine seems to sit lower than normal now and I can't flex it out like I can the other one, like I used to. I still have full arm movement, but I want to know about the shoulder-blade. I'm guessing the disconnected ligaments are allowing it to sit lower and that is always going to be the case, and not having that connection means it doesn't move the same way either.