Anyone dislocate their shoulder?

[pony mom]

My horse zigged and I zagged, falling directly on my right shoulder, dislocating it and fracturing my upper arm too. Agonizingly painful and took 3 tries in emergency room to pop it back (hello anesthesia!) It could have been much worse, as farm owners were home to drive me, was wearing my helmet, horse ran to barn to wait for me and was OK.

If you've had this, how was your recovery? I'm seeing a good ortho dr. tomorrow and will follow his instructions to a T. Can't do any massages for the upcoming busy holiday time, and I'm limiting my horse time to treats and pats.
i'm quite bored and limited in doing anything while wearing a splint and sling. Arm is blue and a bit numb but achy.

Typing w/left hand ain't easy.

[rodeosweetheart]

My horse zigged and I zagged, falling directly on my right shoulder, dislocating it and fracturing my upper arm too. Agonizingly painful and took 3 tries in emergency room to pop it back (hello anesthesia!) It could have been much worse, as farm owners were home to drive me, was wearing my helmet, horse ran to barn to wait for me and was OK.

If you've had this, how was your recovery? I'm seeing a good ortho dr. tomorrow and will follow his instructions to a T. Can't do any massages for the upcoming busy holiday time, and I'm limiting my horse time to treats and pats.
i'm quite bored and limited in doing anything while wearing a splint and sling. Arm is blue and a bit numb but achy.

Typing w/left hand ain't easy.

Sending jingles for a good recovery; no experience with this injury but gosh, sounds so painful. Worst is not being able to take care of your horse, I know!

[Tussiemussies]

So sorry pony mom that you went through this. I have a few time dislocated my knee so I can somewhat sympathize but having a break on top of that sounds worse. I am glad your horse made it out okay. I hope you recovery quickly. I am so glad you are going to completely follow Dr.'s orders. Check in with us to let us know how you are, as often as you can...christine

[awakenedsoul]

Hi ponymom, I'm so sorry about your accident. It sounds like it was very painful. I hope you are recovering. I've never had a dislocated shoulder. The closest I've come to that is having my hips dislocated for a bilateral hip replacement, but I was under a GA. They drill and hammer into your femur, though. It's painful, even with the medications.

For me it took ice, rest, and time. Hopefully your shoulder and upper arm will heal well. If you go to Bonesmart.org. there are numerous threads on joint replacements. I would start a thread under shoulders and see what you find. Lots of great info over there...

[freshstart]

I'm sorry to hear this, wishes for a speedy recovery.

My ex dislocated his shoulder and would not go to the ER because he didn't want to wait (he worked there, the odds of waiting were slim). Calls an ER doc, puts me on the phone with him and said, "he's gonna tell you what to do." Yeah, I don't think so, I think I maybe still loved him back then. I listened, I did what he said but he kept screaming and it would pop back out as he grabbed it. After 3 rounds of this, I grabbed his face and said, "DO NOT TOUCH IT, 3 strikes, there will not be 4." Cobbled together a sling from my home nursing stuff in my car. And made him go to ortho the next day. I would not be responsible for relocating it improperly. They said I done good! I would do it again on him because I'm not a fan, but no one else, the screaming was awful.

I hope your's was not as painful. He healed really quickly, though. And once back in place, he didn't have too much pain

[KayLR]

I was in a car wreck many years ago, think it was 1988, and was knocked unconscious. Pretty out of it during the ER hours. They kept me in the prone position all the time I was there, x-raying me lying down. Well, my collarbone was dislocated from the shoulder socket, but when prone, it slid into place. So-o-oo-o that meant they didn't see it. In the ensuing days I had so much swelling I just thought it was just that, swelling. Eventually I healed up, but my collarbone still floats out of socket. I have pretty much full range of motion, just a funky-looking shoulder. It does not hurt. It's just healed out of socket.

[rodeosweetheart]

What a horror story, freshstart. That's the kind of scenario that always comes to mind when I envision myself as part of an off the grid prepper experiment.

[bae]

I was on a month-long boat trip with my father, and about a week in I grabbed a handhold in rough seas and dislocated my left shoulder.

Dad was a corpsman in the Navy, and reduced the dislocation on the spot, and helped me with some physical therapy ideas for the next several weeks. He did a good job. I went to a physical therapist for some evaluation and more rehab work upon my return. It was mostly pain-free after a week or so, and quite usable carefully after a couple of hours. It still twinges now-and-then but it is mostly fine, enough so that I've not bothered to have anything more done about it.

I've reduced a couple dislocations in the field myself now, seems the faster you can get to it, the less swelling/pain results, assuming you don't bork up the reduction and make things worse.

I hope you feel better soon, pain sucks.

[bae]

What a horror story, freshstart. That's the kind of scenario that always comes to mind when I envision myself as part of an off the grid prepper experiment.

I think if you do an off-the-grid prepper experiment, you want a remote/wilderness EMT/Paramedic on the team to catch things before they get out of hand.

My wife had an infection that was a result of abdominal surgery earlier this year, and was going septic from it. It was pretty bad, but it would have been far far worse if I'd not seen it coming before it got really bad, and I only recognized what was going on because of the training I've received, the initial stages looked pretty non-scary.

[SiouzQ.]

Oh no, best wishes for a speedy recovery! OUCH!