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The shoulder joint is unique in that there is no bone 'socket' it's just muscle and ligaments holding it together. Physio, a good physio, can mean the difference between injury free and "man, I can still feel when I dislocated my shoulder."
I blew my shoulder out a few times mountain biking, but as I was coaching with MMR and then Cycling BC I usually skipped out on the physio and just sucked it up and made due for many years. Got to the point five or six years down the road where two or three times a night I'd roll over in bed, wake up, pop it back in and then go back to sleep. Figured at that point, I was due for the surgery :P
Doc figured just under two hours to fix it all up based on assessment and xrays. As soon as was out on the table, my whole arm fell out off the table. I guess I had been subconciously holding it together for years. Almost 2.5x the planned surgery time to get it buttoned back up.
The 8 month recovery SUCKS. Trust me when I say you DO NOT WANT to do the recovery I had to do. It was brutal.
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