Search:

Yeah, I was surprised at how good WP was on Saturday. I probably skied right next to you at some point in those tree areas. I was wearing an olive green HH down jacket and some khaki pants, skiing on...

Put me down for some Busey's.

Nevermind. Apparently I have a local guy that used to be a Naxo rep and mounted these things. Found out through another buddy. Turns out he also has the jigs and said he mount mine up. That worked...

Anybody have a saved copy of the PDF file for this template on their PC? Or a good link? Searching just brings up dead links and my local ski shop doesn't have the jig or the template.

Picked up a...

Woke up this morning kind of slow not really expecting a lot of new snow. Looked at the pass report for White and saw they received 14" in the past 24hrs. That put some stoke in my fire and I threw...

Same at White Pass. Great snow in the protected areas, wind packed where exposed. Lots of deep pow to be had today.

Sunday at White Pass did not disappoint. Fresh tracks in the morning and even though everything got tracked out by the end of the day, the snow was still awesome. So needed after a month of junk....

I lol'd.

Not being able to slap that plank down hard enough in the liftline to break up all the snow that's stuck to the top of it.

Werd. I've had my powder boards clamped to my feet every day I've been on the mountain so far. It ain't that bad. I think a couple years ago lifts didn't start spinning until the end of December....

The drive up to WP from Yakima had me super stoked. Snow was blowing all around and coming off the road in a fog behind me. It was pretty light. Then at about Silver Creek, nine miles East of the...

I like how they point out the snow in Cali as if it's strange.

Just got back from White Pass. Took two runs and left. Deep heavy mank on the steeps, glue on the groomers. The new chair that goes up to 6500ft was on wind hold, and I'm still not sure that would...

I'll be at White Pass tomorrow. By some miracle I have the day off.

NWS shows snow all tomorrow, rain tomorrow night, snow all Thursday, then rain all that night and snow again Friday. What in the...

Here's a quickie vid from that area today. Met another maggot while back there as well, not sure his name, but he's from TriCities.

I didn't bother to edit anything, and didn't turn off the camera...

Yeah, it's a couple hundred feet of decent angle vertical, and then flat as eff. The best thing about the new terrain is that it spreads out the crowds so well to keep lift lines to a minimum. I...

I guess I'll add a quick POV vid of White Pass from Tuesday. My first one so not really that great. :o On my other clips the lens was iced over so all I had after realizing that and wiping it clean...

White Pass was great today. No sign of any rain crust and pretty deep in the upper new area off the ridge. Wish I had Wednesday off to enjoy some more.

This is what I've done in the past. Lost skis on a ski trip can be replaced with demos/rentals. Lost boots is no bueno.

That said, it's been a couple years since I flew anywhere for some skiing.

Since I live in Yakima, White Pass is my local hill at only 50 miles away.

I'm hoping the new terrain at White will thin out the lift lines on the existing quad, so that I can get to my favorite...

My open bankart cost me $2500. That is the max amount out-of-pocket for me. The rest was taken care of by my insurance.

My capsule is so tight now from surgery that I can't get my arm much past my body when doing external rotation. It's the only ROM exercise that my PT says is lagging as far as progression. I've been...

If you have a torn labrum, surgery will be required. PT can't fix that, but sutures can.

I'm still in PT for my shoulder since full open bankart surgery at the end of December. My surgeon...

That is a rather large incision. The one made for my open bankart is only about 3" long.

I was typing with two hands within a couple days. Just had to recline my computer chair a bit and angle the keyboard more toward my injured limb.

All other stuff I was worthless at though. Even...

UTI is one of my favorite ski flicks ever. Would buy a bluray version in a heartbeat.

Crackboy, your PT sessions sound a lot like mine. Except that you're five weeks post-op and my surgeon wouldn't even let me out of the sling until six weeks, at which point I finally started PT. I...

The farther you try to go to your side the harder it will get. That's how I am anyway. You're still under a month post-op, I don't know that you should expect so much ROM so soon. What procedure did...

I initially lost so much external rotation that the pulley setup to get my arm up over my head was a serious pain in the ass. The loss of ROM in that direction made my arm chicken wing waaay out...

I had a breakthrough today. While lying on my back I can now reach back over my head and touch the ground. And while my muscles still feel weak, the joint itself feels much more stable than before....

When you say between 90 and 105 degrees, do you mean that's how high you can hold your arm straight out in front of you?

Straight out in front I can go probably 135 degrees before I have to hunch...

I was out for 2.5 weeks, but I install network cabling for a living. I was able to do some paperwork from home, but mostly stood around jobsites helping out my crew where I could when I actually went...

I don't notice any weird lasting effect from anesthesia and I was under for at least 2.5 hours. I do puke a bit afterwards but that only lasts about 24hrs or so.

Had a visit with the surgeon last Friday and he okay'd a more aggressive PT routine for me. I had my first visit with the PT today for that routine. Starting some light strengthening along with some...

I think you can attribute the way things are going to the fact that you had this done through the arthroscopic method. I'm now over eight weeks post op on my full open bankart/capsular shift...

PT is going well. I gain a little more ROM with every visit it seems. All PT at this point is still passive, so the arm is pretty weak still. The good thing is that I am starting to feel like I'm on...

Just had my 6-week post-op appt. Dr. says everything looks normal as far as recovery. I get to remove my sling and have an appt for PT starting on Monday. I was beginning to get pretty tired of lint...

I was wearing shirts, but they were all button-downs. Trying to put a t-shirt on hurt way too bad for the first three weeks as it pulled on the shoulder joint while trying to pull it over my head.
...

Four weeks post-op. I can get t-shirts on now if I'm careful. Otherwise, nothing has really changed.

I remember people telling me that shoulder surgery was one of the more painful procedures out there before I went in for arthroscopic surgery ten years ago. I thought I must've had a super high pain...

Three weeks post-op now. Getting better.

Today while driving down the freeway in my company van I passed a car stopped on the side of the road. As I passed the car, the driver's door opened up...

Mine was pretty painful for a good week, then started to subside, but I think that was mostly caused by them having to disconnect the subscapularis muscle to access the joint and then reattach it....

I only iced my shoulder for about 48hrs after surgery. I just had the girlfriend fill up a little dealie they gave me with icewater whenever it became ambient.

I think everything is inconvenient...

Good luck tomorrow, dude.

Post-op appt was today. Doc says everything looks good so far. Got the bandage removed along with the sterile strips holding the incision together. Says it should heal really well and that I can...

For what it's worth, this is the unit I have used off and on for the past ten years:

http://www.benik.com/adults/shoulder/s-100

I have the older unit, which doesn't have the easy clips to undo...

You have to take it off and be super careful I guess. That's why I waited so long. Today was the first day I left the house since surgery, so it was my first time taking the sling off to put a shirt...

I figured I'd start my own thread finally. I can use this to keep track of my recovery and, like all the other great threads on the site, to help anyone else out there thinking about getting the same...

It only took 10secs of being awake after open surgery on Wednesday to remind me how much my body doesn't like being under anesthesia. The past couple days have been rough.

Seeing this scares me. I talked about the Latajet with my ortho and he is confident that he can get it stable without that procedure. Hope he's right.