old injury

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I am having therapy to treat shoulder impingement, on the advice of my orthopaedist. I have learned quite a bit, but probably just enough to be dangerous.

It has become apparent to me that I suffered a shoulder separation many years ago, and that it was probably grade three ( I have a very noticeable bump at the a/c-clavicle area). It was never treated. I am now having a variety of pains in this shoulder, as well as some sporadic and varying degrees of numbness.

It will be a month or so before my follow-up with the orthopaedist. In the meantime, my therapy continues. My questions are: 1) is this old injury likely to be contributing to my current problem, and 2) if it is, am I wasting my time in therapy/can this injury be treated surgically after all this time?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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What interests me about your post is that you say it's an old injury never treated and you have prominent acromions. I have a few questions and would really appreciate it if you could answer them.

1) how long after the bumps developed on your shoulders did you start experiencing pain?

2) When you suffered the shoulder separation, did you know about it? I mean, did you just feel pain, continue with your normal lifestyle and forget it until you saw those bumps and starting getting pains?

3) How long after the original injury do you think the trouble started?

I too have prominent acromions, only discovered them recently. I know they weren't like this six months ago. I have no pain or tenderness (as yet, and hopefully never!) but I'm worried this is a sign of degeneration in the joints resulting from an old injury that, like yourself, I was not really aware of at the time it happened. Some time ago I had serious pain in the shoulders. Enough to stop me from training. I ignored it and it went away. The bumps came up months later. Was this the case with you? Did you know you had an injury or only know in hindsight since you saw the bumps develop?

I have recently woken with some vague numbness in my hand on the side of the most prominent acromion, left shoulder. Can anybody else shed some light on this as well?