Question: Hi, I had a bad fall eight weeks ago on my shoulder and went to the accident and emergency in hospital the same day. I was given an x-ray and was told nothing was broken and it was a torn muscle. Basically through getting an MRI scan referred by my own doctor I found that I had suffered an avulsion of the right humerus of greater tuberosity.The original x-ray had showed this all along but wasn't spotted. After being referred to an orthopaedic clinic in hospital I got another x-ray which showed the avulsion but I was told that because it was past four weeks since the accident the surgeon would be unable to operate and put a pin through it, and to refrain from lifting my arm too high as the muscles will try to pull on the avulsion and make it worse. My last visit to the hospital was a few days ago and I was told to try and get the muscles moving, which contradicts the previous advice. My arm is still quite sore and my doctor wrote this of my limitations - tender subacromial space, not tender AC or SC joints, 45 degrees abduction, normal retroflexion, subnormal anteflexion, unable to actively posteriorly rotate, pain on passive rotation, which is limited, also a traumatic injury right from day 1 of the injury, and what is the best thing I can do for my injury right now, and will I need surgery in the future? I have not been back to work since the accident, as I work in the postal service and is quite a manual job.
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Thanks for replying,
I'm not sure what the displacement amount is exactly, but I have posted up a few stills from my MRI scan which might help.
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