50 and switching from Iron to cable machines?

[Brett N]

I lay a lot of stone and brick, some block. Boss said he's got some all brick jobs he's going to put me on and they are all commercial so there should be no lifting above my shoulder height. I do well for him and he treats me good, we have a good relationship and he knows I could have easily gone the workers comp route on him but the final injury was when I was benching and I felt the right thing to do was to take the hit myself. If it happened at work I would have gone comp. My Christmas bonus reflected my choice.

They reattached my bicep by pin, he said at 12 weeks it should be fully healed. He said it with confidence. I told him I felt grinding in my shoulder like sand when I moved it arouond at certain rotations and he didn't beat around the bush. He said that's something that might not ever go away and it just is. He also did some smoothing of my collar bone of arthritis to keep it from rubbing on my rotator. He seems like a pretty blunt Dr and doesn't bullshit you to try to make you feel better so it makes me trust him.

[wango]

I lay a lot of stone and brick, some block. Boss said he's got some all brick jobs he's going to put me on and they are all commercial so there should be no lifting above my shoulder height. I do well for him and he treats me good, we have a good relationship and he knows I could have easily gone the workers comp route on him but the final injury was when I was benching and I felt the right thing to do was to take the hit myself. If it happened at work I would have gone comp. My Christmas bonus reflected my choice.

They reattached my bicep by pin, he said at 12 weeks it should be fully healed. He said it with confidence. I told him I felt grinding in my shoulder like sand when I moved it arouond at certain rotations and he didn't beat around the bush. He said that's something that might not ever go away and it just is. He also did some smoothing of my collar bone of arthritis to keep it from rubbing on my rotator. He seems like a pretty blunt Dr and doesn't bullshit you to try to make you feel better so it makes me trust him.

Yup, at your /our age the grinding is going to be there, if there ain’t arthritis at this stage, consider yourself very fortunate.

That was very admirable that you took the hit & didn’t blame it on work, you don’t see a lot of honesty these days. That’s a good doc, I hate docs that are vague.

Just a word of caution, it’s healed, but if doesn’t mean it’s ready for long hours of continual work. Gradually break it in. Tendons need time to adapt to the work & volume. Are you returning to full-time immediately or can your boss let you acclimate more slowly?