Help my pectoral muscle ruptured

Hey, the same thing happened to me. My pec looked exactly like yours in the picture. It happened about 10 months ago while benchpressing.

I saw an orthopedic surgeon and he reccomended surgery to me as he said that I would see a better recovery with surgery. The surgeon said it was very rare, but that he does about 5 of them a year.

So I ended up getting surgery. The first week afterwards sucked, but after that it wasnt too bad. I was in a sling for about 2 and a half weeks. After the surgery, the torn pec had filled in a little more as he reconnected it, but since there was lots of muscle tearing, it still looks a little deformed.

I started physics therapy, but I have the feeling I went to a really crappy place because they didnt have me do much that I didnt consider obvious or couldnt do by myself at home.

After about 4 or 5 months after the surgery I started working out normally again. My bench pretty much hit rock bottom as recovery is slow.

At this point ive taken a bit of a break from lifting as Ive gotten frustrated with my injury. At one point I was benching reps at 165 pretty easily, but then I pushed myself to hard and hurt myself a little.

Thats kind of where I am now, it still hurts to bench significant amounts of weight and Im kinda lost as to what to do next, but I hope that if I just take things slow that things will recover.
 
Hey ah my brother is a body builder he had some what the same thing in that pic but on his biceps and the doctor told him to go easy on the arm and wait a few months and it will recover but that looks really worst then what my brother had so maybe it will need surgery or a year or more to recover
 
Sorry to hear about your injury, I think I can help? I completely tore my pectoral muscle four years ago in March, and had surgery less than two weeks later. I did it bench pressing as well, and on my sixth rep just like you. I knew it was torn right away, my whole arm was black and my left pec was also very discolored. I had an MRI on a Thursday, and was under the knife by the following Monday. I had three blood clots in my arm the doctor had to clean out, and the surgery took about an hour and a half. My Orthapedic Doctor said he had only seen about a half dozen pec tears in his practice, so he had a specialist come in and assist during the surgery. My arm was in a sling for about three or four weeks, and I also had to wear a wrap around my chest to keep the arm from moving in any direction, so I had to be very cautious. I then had physical therapy three times a week for a month to get the range of motion back in my shoulder and chest, and I can tell you it was painful to go through! I really pushed myself in therapy, then had to do a series of exercises at home. I was 33 years old when it happened, and I took things very slowly when I went back to the gym. I would say I was out from March until the end of May, then I went back to the gym. I was benching 350 when it happened, and when I went back to the gym, I could not even curl 10 pounds with my left arm! I took things slow, read a lot of articles, and followed my Doctors advice by slowly increasing the weights I used gradually. It took a long time to feel comfortable doing chest exercises again from a mental standpoint, and after all this time, the most I have benched is 255. I rarely do flat bench anymore, I use Hammer strength machines to avoid further injury. My left shoulder bothers me from time to time, but I do rotator cuff exercises every week to keep it strong and healthy. I would advise you to find a very good Orthapredic Surgeon, follow his advice and take things very slowly. Remember, it is not important what you bench, use correct form and use weights you can handle with good form, and you will be fine. I know it will be frustrating at times, but if you do these things I have suggested, you will be back to your old form and lifting again very soon. Good luck, I hope I was of some help? Joe R.
 
HELP PLEASE.Im deppresed.Hey what's up!I was watching ur pictures and...my right pectorale looks just as same as yours.I had even a bigger inflamation.I couldn't even raise my arm from lay down position(like u do dumbell flyes).Than after 3 weeks after red-blue-yellow singh was off i made a echo to see the situation.Rapture near pectorale tendin and a big hematoma inside my pecs like 1inchx1inch.I had a trauma cuz i raptured in a motorcycle accident.Im 21 years old and last year i got second in my state strongestman.Then i start train as a bodybuilder.I weighted 300lbs with 22.4inch arms.Then after 6 weeks i start training cuz i couldn't wait any more.Before this happend i did in bench press 286lbs x 22 reps and 1 rep max 420lbs and now i was feeling pain with just 100lbs.I couldn't do free weight benches or flyes.I started incline smith machine with 100lbs and in 3-4 weeks iv done it 200 x7 reps.Before accident 286x10.But now i was very slow range of motion.Than seated machine press.Then some pullovers and i started with 11lbs dumbell fly movement but my right pec was gettin tired fast.I did up to 27.5lbs.I trained for 7 weeks.Now i have 2 months im not training.When im standing and move my arm in position like im doing lat raise than i flex my pecs and my short head of bis moves back and foward.I have this big scar and hole in my right pecs.It looks like theres nothin there.So i need u help cuz where i live there is not a specialist.I have gone to a surgeon and he told me not to do a clinical surgery but he is not a specialist 4 this so i need u help.My pec looks just like yours.Anything would help me.U can e-mail me to niku_big_boy@yahoo.com or niku_muskulozi@hotmail.com or at my profile.
 
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