Down for the count awhile

[Alfie]

Last monday morning, I had shoulder surgery done to my right shoulder, about 10mm of the collarbone removed on the shoulder end.

Rehab training isnt that fun I can tell ya!  
 But I have a clear goal, I've orderd some Easton legacy sticks and I want to get some feathers on them and start shooting!  
 My longbow is hanging in the garage waiting for me.

So *********** is a nice site for inspiration, more than before I can tell you that much!

Anyone else who's done about the same surgery? If so, how long before you where shooting again?

Take care all fellow archers.

[jsweka]

Good luck with the rehab and I wish you the best.

[YORNOC]

Hang in there, your attitude seems good. Broke my right hand last year, drew back for the first time two months later...ouch.
Got any super light bows for rehab?

[ranger 3]

Do the rehab it works, I had knee Knee placement in Nov. and I am doing great after rehab.

[Alfie]

Hmmmm...maybe get a set of lighter limbs för my recurve? good idea!....I'll start looking right away!

[Hatrick]

I can't shoot for at least another month and it's killing me. I had some recent inner ear surgery. They had to reconstruct the inner ear bones and graft a new ear drum.

Hopefully I'll get some hearing back in my left ear. I'm getting pretty tired of not being able to tell the direction of approaching deer. Worse yet, I think they know    

Good luck to you, hang in there and do the rehab. Stick to your goals. I'm working on some new arrows now myself. At least I can do that!

Dave

[lpcjon2]

I feel your pain, I herniated a disk just after the season started and have not been able to hunt at all this year. Im still waiting to find out what my options are. But I have been craving some shooting so my brother lent me a recurve in a lower poundage to work with. I shoot longbows in the 70# weight class and cant shoot them yet,so the little recurve is gonna get me in the yard shooting.Get well and do as the doc says.Tim

[Bill Carlsen]

Go slow with the rehab before you pick up a bow. Too much too soon and you may not be hunting next season. Start of with light bows. Once i started shooting again after surgery it always helped to ice the shoulder afterwards. Best of luck.

[Outwest]

Good luck with your bump in the road.
With your good attitude you will prevail.

John

[straitera]

Everybody here at TG will pull for you for sure! Hope you;re back in the woods after 'em pdq! Can't say about *********** folks? Probably nice guys too?

[Alfie]

Will be spending time doing some mental training, creating positive mind pics of shooting, reading books and forums and watching archery vids on the tube to keep the goal of being back shoooting until spring time at the latest (that's about in may here)

And i do hope that I'll have a bow hunting season to look forward to, we arn't allowed to hunt with bows here in Sweden yet, but we hope it will be allowed in 2012, fingers crossed.

[Easykeeper]

I had a similar surgery on my AC joint about five years ago.  Ground off the end of the bone that was deteriorated from arthritis.  I will need to have it done on the other side eventually.  It's tough for a while.  I still remember trying to adapt to temporarily only having one functional arm.  Recovery was a b....  It took me quite a while in the gym after I got the ok from the surgeon to get my strength and mobility back.  The upside is the surgery was completely successful.  You will get through it and feel younger and stronger on the other side...  

[Duker]

Alf:::Best of luck with your rehab  

[guk]

hang in there keep your chin up. had neck surgery in sept and missed bow season for the first time in over 30 yrs. listen to the doc dont rush it. thats the hardest part the waiting.

[Thumper Dunker]

Good luck and hurry and get well.

[stujay]

Best wishes on your rehab.

[Rookie@51]

I had that same operation on my right shoulder last Feb and it didn't go too good. I sold my 55# bow but still have a 58# that I can't shoot yet. I am rehabing it with some rubber bands and a wheel bow set at a lower poundage. I think it is almost back to where I need it to be. I'm going to be looking at another longbow soon. Hope things go your way but don't rush it.......Dusty

[Doc Nock]

One shoulder 7 yrs ago and another 3.  They had to grind impingements of arthritis out on both sides, grind off spurs that were shredding tendons to look like friz sticks for campfire starting, and one was a torn 3-corner rotator tear.

I constantly beratted my surgeon till he got the message: "Tell me the difference between pain and damage... Let ME decide how much pain in rehab I can take, but YOUR JOB NOW is to make sure I know where the line is between pain that is discomfort and pain that is potentially causing damage!"

We finally communicated and I had surgery Aug 27 and was shooting a 50+ # bow by November but I worked at home daily once I was allowed to do excercises on my own.

Those weeks where only the PT could move my arm, were weeks of tears rolling down my face it hurt that badly...

KNOW...then DO! Not the other way around!

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Good luck with your recovery!

[Alfie]

The hard part is just to stay cool and not rush things!
It's only one week ago that I made this surgery, feels pretty good actually, but it's easy to rush the rehab and that comes with a price, more pain!

Orderd a set of 30Ibs limbs for my Samick Redstag, just to be prepared when it's time to pick up the bow again.

It's good to hear from you guy's that doen the same thing and hear that it's a way back to archery, keeps the positive attitude easyer to withold.

Thanks for your support