“Where hacks come to spew nonsense” - B2B
Sunday weigh in put me at 187.4 pounds. My maximum weight during the off season was 194.3 pounds.
That means that Der Kruiser wins the challenge! Your fabulous prize awaits!
UPDATE 1:27pm: A late protest from
Weight tracking down, fitness tracking up.
I keep making the mistake of thinking that my trainer ride will get easier as I get with the fitness. But it ends up being the same amount of pain. I just end up cranking out more watts during the workout.
I am predicting that Super-Rookie will win the Fitness Challenge.
I pulled a muscle in my back this morning.
Maybe it was loading Baby Smithers into his car seat. Maybe it was a result of favoring my right arm. Maybe it was something totally different that I am not even aware of.
Regardless, if I sit very very still and take little short shallow breaths it does not bother me a bit.
But if I move or breath deep the muscle goes into spasm and I can barely speak because it hurts so bad.
I went 20 minutes of my 1:10 scheduled workout this morning before I had to bail out due to the pain and the inability to breath.
What happened to me? It seems like just two or three years ago I felt indestructible. Now it seems like there is something dragging me down just about every god damn day.
This must be what getting old feels like. I guess I am not going to be able to take part in that break dancing contest tonight. I am so disappointed.
So apparently I was suffering from subluxation of the shoulder rather than dislocation.
Hey, I ain’t no damn doctor.
Subluxation is 50% of the way to dislocation and it don’t feel too good so I’m not interested in any lipping off about being a cry baby.
As opposed to full dislocation, where the ball of the joint has slipped and is sitting fully outside of the joint, subluxation results in the ball being pulled out of the joint and then teetering on the edge of full dislocation. It is at this point that the muscles in my shoulder have been pulling the ball back into joint.
Subluxation does not cause nearly the same amount of damage to the shoulder that a dislocation can.
The white circular ring inside the shoulder joint shown above is call the labrum. While the MRI showed extensive tearing of the labrum at the front and the top of the ring, surgery is not required at this point. I can get away with 6 to 8 weeks of physical therapy and then determine how stable the joint is at that point.
There is a 20% higher incident for joint arthritis for those who suffer dislocation but there is no data for those who only suffer subluxation.
Final diagnosis: Super Rookie does not win a single race on the boards this season.
Just got the analysis of the MRI this morning:
HISTORY: Several previous shoulder dislocations.
TECHNIQUE: Coronal T1, FSE T2, FSE T2 with fat sat. Sagittal FSE T2. Axial dual echo T2.
FINDINGS
OSSEOUS ACROMION OUTLET: The aromion is curved, type II. There is no anterior or lateral downsloping or evidence of subacromial spur. AC degenerative changes cause minimal narrowing the supraspinatus outlet.ROTATOR CUFF: Intact.
GLENOID LABRUM: There is abnormal signal throughout the anterior labrum at the base of the labrum with an extensive anterior labral tear associated with the history of previous recurrent dislocations. Posterior labrum is intact. There is abnormal signal at the base of the superior labrum as well and I suspect there may be a SLAP type component as well involving the superior and anterior labrum.
BICEPS TENDON: Intact.
OSSEOUS STRUCTURES AND CARTILAGINOUS SURFACES: There is a moderate-sized Hill-Sachs deformity with associated bone marrow edema in the posterior lateral aspect of the humeral head. Bone marrow signal is otherwise normal. Glenohumeral articular cartilage is intact.
ADDITIONAL FINDINGS: No joint effusion or subacromial or subdeltoid fluid.
IMPRESSION:
1. Hill-Sachs deformity with associated bone marrow edema.
2. Extensive labral tear involving the base of the labrum throughout the anterior labrum. There is also a superior labral tear associated with this.
3. No evidence of rotator cuff tear.
Hey, I am no expert, but this doesn’t sound real good to me…
A Hill-Sachs deformity is an indentation or groove on the head of the humerus arm bone which may occur after one episode of shoulder dislocation. This proves that I am not a liar, at least about the dislocation that is.
The Glenoid Labrum is ring of fibrous cartilage surrounding the end of the scapula where it meets the head of the humerus. Sounds like there are some problems with it.
OK web monkeys, what is the diagnosis? Surgery or physical therapy? We find out on February 22.
Instability is usually defined as a clinical syndrome which occurs when a shoulder is loose enough to produce symptoms. It can refer to either outright dislocation where the upper arm bone comes out of the socket or to a more subtle slipping of the humeral head within the socket, a condition known as subluxation.
I am pretty sure that I am suffering from outright dislocation.
Now that your ligaments have been stretched, you may wonder if your shoulder will dislocate again. The answer to that partly depends on how well you heal and whether or not you have another injury. However, your tendency to dislocate will be strongly influenced by your age at the time of first dislocation.
Yea, I am not doing much “wondering” if it will dislocate again.
55% for me.
If you dislocate again and again, and if you find that your shoulder problem is interfering with your life style, it may be a good idea to arrange for surgery so you can get your loose and unstable shoulder capsule tightened up and/or repair any torn ligaments. This may be especially important if you normally enjoy participating in sports.
I guess we shall see what the doctor says on Tuesday.
Sheesh, I am tired.
I am going to call the doctor and try and get in next week to see what he has to say about my shoulder. Some of the online research I have done seems to indicate that I would be looking at a six week recovery time from a surgical procedure.
I don’t have six weeks open until early October at the soonest. If I want to race cross this year then I might have to put it off until early November. The question is whether or not I can put up with the bad joint between now and then. I think I can.
I injured it in February of 2005 and had some additional trouble during the summer of 2005 when swimming but I have not had much problem with it since then. Bike racing obviously does not cause me any trouble as I rode and raced all of 2006 without incident.
The only question is what happens if I crash. She who no longer blogs, Gilby, was asking me this afternoon if I am worried about crashing on my shoulder. She has had some problems with a bad shoulder and worries about crashing on it. Maybe I should worry about it and, to be honest, if I was racing next week I probably would be worried about it. But, if I don’t have any problems between now and April then I probably won’t be thinking about it at all. At least I hope not. We shall see.
I think tomorrow I will post some factory pictures and video that I shot this week in France.
Mike wins, hands down.
Once the aliens found our perfect match on earth we were sent down in a freezer suit case and thrown into the back of a junkie Toyota, and that’s were we waited for our owners.
I’m not knowing what he might be meaning, but his huge crushing writing habits can be scaring the scotterobinator and sometimes the fearing is the exciting for us.
The truth: When the EPO came back, I stared at it for awhile. For a couple days. Then I took the shuttle over to the specialty pharmacy and explained what EPO abuse is in sport, active black market, etc. Kind of read them the riot act, a bit over the top since I was probably the last person in the organization they should have sent it to, free and clear. And how could they have known? I told a few friends, had some laughs about it.
Mike, let me know which prize you want, and where I can drop if off.
I felt like real hell during my trainer ride this morning.
Something is clearly wrong right now. My sleeping pattern is all screwed up and I am not feeling very good on the bike. If I am getting sick I’ll probably find out in the next couple of days.
I will have a week off the bike at the end of this month so I guess if I need to do some recovering I can do it then. Between now and then I guess I will just stick to my training schedule and see how things go.
Maybe I am just getting all old and worn out and pussified.
