4 months after surgery.. question on sports? Thanks

[physiobob]

Thanks for you post. I dont think pullups are a problem in that you can injure yourself doing them anytime so the risk is there in anycase. The Dr is correct in that any end of range exercise with load will place more pressure on the labrum. So we need to ask outselves is this normal risk? Maybe yes, maybe no. Tennis players who have labral tears go back to tennis with overhead activities and cope well. Of course there's a lot of end of range strengthening first. So my cal would be it is up to you. There is increased risk but it is only a labrum and many of us have labral tears and don't even know it.

One thing though - a labral tear wont make your forearm weak!

[HponeMK]

Thank you physiobob!

If i may ask, if I were to resume with pull ups how do I do this uhm "end of range strengthening" ? Thanks for the help


Oh and may I ask after undergoing surgery and having fully recovered, is the torn labrum still susceptible to tearing easily? Because now in physiotherapy i am doing push ups (on exercise balls against the wall) and I feel alright. But when I tried pull ups the other time, it's like this foreboding feeling and I'm afraid to load that much on my shoulder (and also I'm afraid to "suck" in my shoulder joint in pull up where it's locked um yea something like that sorry :P )

Thanks