Thread: rotator cuff tear. Can any substance help repair the actual tear.

Originally Posted by bulk_cut

Are you sure it's an actual rotator cuff tear?? Did you have an MRI done?

Oh yeah its a tear.. Tendon only hanging on by 10% according to the specialist. And yes MRI done. A few years ago when it happened.
Pain free and pushing weights now ok though. And the specialist said weights shouldn't be an issue.


But I want to get back in to BJJ and I' am training in boxing again..

I saw another specialist recently, who said stop boxing and no mma, as one arm bar could tear it right off the shoulder and its going to cost $20k to repair and will put me out of action for a couple of years until I can be back to where I was before the op.

Considering I haven't got 20k up my sleeve and considering I don't want to spend the next couple of years rehabilitating it, and considering the quack said some repairs aren't even very successful, I want to avoid tearing it right off.

Unfortunately the new specialist couldn't get the old mri to open on his mac pc. I'm going back with the old scan and a windows laptop to get him to have another look. But he tells me is really not relevant anyway considering I'm boxing. He said that will only cause the tear to get worse bashing it around like that..