Tom Blackman - recovery after surgery

TinyTom

Some of you might know that recently I underwent surgery on my shoulder.

It was an old injury from back in my Jiu-Jitsu days from agressive locks and strikes but as I have gotten bigger I have had more trouble with it.

So on 4th Feb I had a keyhole surgery operation to remove some calcium deposits and some other maintenance of the joint. Thankfully the rotator cuff was perfectly fine there was just a small tear of the ligament which has been fixed.

So I'm back on the road to recovery now and I thought I'd keep a diary of my progress for anyone else who has had similar problems.

I havent trained at all for over 10 weeks and obviously been off all AAS etc since before Xmas so I've had plenty of time to clean out and rest.

So I've lost about 8kg in weight and this will log my recovery.

I resumed training last week albeit at a vastly reduced level and have been in pain all week from DOMS lol.

So thats it really, I will put up some pics from the operation (inside my shoulder) which the surgeon gave me and you can see the tear quite clearly on it.

So this will be a total recovery log which may be of help to people who are trying to get back into training after a layoff or maybe someone looking to progress their training to a higher level.

I've started to work with Extreme Nutrition as well from this month and will be using their products to help my recovery. I've got a lot of time for Dougie and his company as they invest a lot of time into their products and testing them with athletes and with university programmes.

So yesterday I did my first shoudler workout in 3 months which went like this

Lateral raise - 5kg,10kg,12kg
DB press - 12.5kg
Front DB raise - 5kg
Rear Delt flye - 5kg

That was it and it was enough as I was knackered. So a definate benchmark to gauge my progress.

I'll stick my diet up later on and will put up the pics from the operation and me before I started back training so you can see the 'before' pics.

Tall

/me subscribed.

Should be an interesting Journal Tom.

crazycal1

how did you cope mentally with the weight loss bud?
i`ve got some surgery coming up soon ish.

einsteins mind was the key to all things...to understand more than to know.

www.extremenutrition.co.uk

TinyTom

Cal - I never weighed myself and kept on eating a good diet albeit with some niceties thrown in.

Is depressing though when you can FEEL yourself getting smaller and you know you are weaker.

However once the surgery was done it was kind of like going over a summit cos I knew I'd be back into it soon enough.

FAT BOY

good luck m8
should be a good read

cellaratt

Sorry to hear about your misfortune Tom. Having sustain a life altering shoulder Break ( wish I had pics ) I can truelly relate to the mental and physical training. You must be a unique individual already so I'm sure in time you'lle not only be back to your original shape but be more mentally into the game as ever. For me personnaly I had to completely rethink the way I trained my shoulder ( but I lost a lot of mobility ) you will come out of this better than ever. Do you have much of a noticable scar or where they able to do it through microscopic surgery?

SX Dave

good luck with the recovery mate, should be a very interesting read.

TinyTom

thanks guys

They did it by keyhole so I've got a tiny scar about 1-2cm long on my side and rear delt. Wont even show up on stage so thats good.

I had it done at the J Webb clinic which is a specialist sports injuries clinic in Bristol.

cellaratt

Thats good to hear. A friend of mine would have given you all a run for your money on stage but after a ruptured appendix leaviing a huge scar across his belly kinda made it impossible for him.

Pikey

Good luck with the rehab Tom look forward to reading about your progress.