Re: Help with Major Instability!

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I have been reading this group on and off now for a while and was wondering

if any one could offer an advice on what I can or should do ?

My problem is that I suffer from multi-directional instability but, according

to the last doctor whom I saw (at California Southern Orthopedic General), my

ligaments are not lax enough to really consider surgery an option if

using his technique, which is supposed to have the greatest chance of success

for people in my predicament.

To make matters worse I have another doctor I saw in Germany who is also

highly regarded that is willing to operate as an option and it quite

confident about it. The trouble is that the technique he uses is far older

which makes me confused why he is so confident about when the other doctor feels

the opposite with a technique that has greater chance of success. The German

docotor also thinks i have a SLAP lesion which was noted at all by the other

doctor so i am faced with dilema given that my rehab does not work.

More recently I started focussing on doing core stability exercises which HAS

helped but also caused me to sublax badly so although I an make execellent

progress sometimes using small stretches my shoulders never stay in .

This however is not the only area that is that sublaxes or sublaxing as my

whole body from my lower , hips, even my right knee seems to be affected , esp

my hips and lower back.

My goal is to get back into tennis so I can coach and maybe even play and

considering that I was at almost 100% last year I don't think this is

unlrealistic ..though I could be wrong .

It has been a decade since I had this but I have been almost rehabbing

exclusively, or rather have had no choice to given how bad I was, oer the

past 4 yrs I am still relaitvely young 25 but I am aware of the problems age

poses on sugery as you get older which is why I am determined to try adn stop

this now.

Right now I am plan on addressing this SLAP lesion issue to rule it out

before I consider other options, perhaps this is not the ideal course of

action but it seems I would just be wasting my time doing rehab if I did.

I am not keen on surgery, so, even if it is an optio,n but at the same time my

condition despite all the rehab just seems to be affecting more areas to the

point where I have the same lack of sensation I used to experince in my arms

in my legs .

There is nothing that specifically causes me to sublax and I am living in

fear constantly of when it does because anything from wearing a warm jacket

ot sitting a certain way can cause it for no apparent reason ,and when it

does it is struggle to get back in to the point where I can literally spend 3

-4 days almost religiously doing these stretches to trigger the nerve firing

sensations that slide it back into place. Suffice to say I do not want to

spend the rest of my life either livng in fear of this or being forced into

having to rehab just to try and stop the inevitable .

Based on what I've said then it seems my only choice is to find a surgeon who

uses a technique that will help me or finding a damm good pt that obviosuly

doesn;t exist up here ( even in Glasgow ) given my experience or some other

form of treatment.

I have tried alternative therapy , tried rehab, tried surgeons , tried

prolotherapy which did help but ultimatley gave me gastritis so I am really

at my wits end trying to figure out just what I can or should do .

As final resort it seems my best choice would be selling myself of to some

laboratory that at least might investigate further into what this could be or

how to deal with it , and yes I am serious.

I would if nesecessary relocate to somehwere that has facilities like cable

machines etc I could use but it seems based on what happened before using

light weights that my body can;t handle it without sublaxing which is why I

concentrate on using therabands instead.

If any one has any advice , links anything no matter how insignificant it may

seem I'd be more than grateful for your insights.

Thanks for your time.

Grant Belleni

Grantown,Scotland