Friday, April 28, 2017

Rotation (DRTL)

   MRI   3/19/2015  ( On leaving the Jordan Road Medical Office, the heavy door encountered a gust of wind  which blew the door back into my arm.  When I got to my car, I had to massage the area before driving home. It seems like it's always windy there at that office entrance.  Kind of like the wind tunnel on Albany's State Street. )
  "Full-thickness retracted tear of entire supraspinatus with retraction of bursal surface fibers and articular sided fibers
   Tear extends posteriorly to involve the infraspinatus, with full-thickness tear of the anterior 10 mm of the infraspinatus.  Posterior to this, tear extends another 10 mm posteriorly  as an articular sided tear that delaminates into an interstitial tear, extending to the myotendinous junction
   Long Head Biceps Tendon, likely full-thickness retracted tear
    Glenoid Labrum:  Superior labrum degenerated and blunted
   Glenohumeral Joint:  Mild cartilage thinning and surface irregularity Minimal superior subluxation of humeral head .  Moderate joint effusion.  Mild synovitis
     Bursae:  Moderate amount of fluid in subacromial/ subdeltoid bursa with cuff tear"
So without much help from my supraspinatus, my infraspinatus, and my biceps tendon, all of which have suffered tears, plus some bursitis,  how on earth do I do what I do?
   What I'm unable to do is comb or fix my hair with my right hand, or take a dish of any weight from a higher shelf, or reach a certain area of my back. Or sleep very well on my right side,  What's difficult and painful  but do-able is about a hundred other things.
   When I went for the lukewarmly-prescribed physical therapy, one of the exercises was what the therapist said was a motion similar to wall-washing--moving the arm in circular patterns against a wall.  So I guess I could wash the walls in my house.  They need it.
 

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