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i tore my distal tendon off at the elbow im sure this happens to many but i have sugery wed aug 13 how long of a recovery will this be?
 
im not a doctor but tendons and ligaments lack blood supply in adequate amounts. hence they will take longer to heal than any muscle would. ask somebody who has torn an ACL or PCL or MCL and you might get a rough estimate.
 
NBS 4life said:
Ask your surgeon.
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Good answer :) That's what I'd do :D

We're late in answering, so you probably already know what the "plan" is :)

Generally speaking, you will have a 6-8 week period where you don't do anything much other than basic range of motion exercises. Your rehab process will be very gradual. After that, the tendon has healed enough for you to start doing some physio to strengthen the arm again. After 3-3.5 months, you can probably start in with some LIGHT bench pressing and shoulder presses, and between 6-9 months post-op, you will probably have attained normal strength and full unrestricted function again.

I'm not a physiotherapist or an orthopedic surgeon, so there may be different thinking on this in the industry depending on where you live and what facilities you will be going to.

If you can stomach the pics, this is how they probably fixed your tendon:


It's a really solid repair.
 
thanks for the pics they helped mine might been a little different i had post op dr was not there but talked to asst she said the went all the way through my arm small hole on other side and attached somthing there i wasnt sure how but she said it went very well
 
my arm is feeling good they said i am ahead of scedual on healing i wear a restrictive brace that restricts how strait i can put my arm its pretty strait now the arm is usually a little biger than my other arm now looks a little smaller and a little different but ok i think it will be ok thanks for asking
 
my arm is getting better bicept still a little high looking but dr said mid november should have no restrictions
 
i got this fixed nice arm is near normal looking bicept is a little high can start working harder got 2 stints put in my heart a while back it sucks to know i had to get this but it gives back alot of enegery i guess its a genitic think for me
 
2 stents, huh? Did you have a heart attack (myocardial infarction) or did they catch it before the MI?

I have 1 stent and no MI.
 
i mjust started feeling poor i have high bp so my dr. wanted me to start exersising more i lift weight more than otrher stuff so after my deer hunting season ended in jan i started do do more cardio couldnt ride a tredmill for 3 min so i tryed again and again next day still the same called dr and got in took a treadmill test they sent me to mercy hp to get stints that day two days later went 30 min on treamill no prob they said i was a walking time bomb and if i would of had a mi prob wouldnt make it
 
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