I tore my rotator cuff in my left arm last year April 7, 2017. I did not have surgery. I knew two fellows at the gym who had one and neither had surgery and one is a retired cardiologist. I asked my doctor in The Villages, Dr. Raquet and he said it would heal on it's own eventually. So I skipped the surgery and laid off golf for 3 months. Ironically my golfing neighbor partner had hip replacement surgery the same week, he also took off three months and we went back at the same time. Although he swung a lot slower at first and we moved up from the blues to the white tees.
I tore it doing chest curls of 20 pound weights in each hand and did 75 real quick without warming up because I had a class to go to. When I got into class I couldn't lift a thing. I still haven't fully recovered my strength, I can only do what I use to with 15 pound weights and the 20 pounds weights I've just moved back into, this after 18 months.
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