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Anybody have an AC joint seperation?

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5 years after doing 6 weeks or so of shadow boxing with a friend, I still have some sort of sagging should/AC joint separation in my shoulder, similar to below. Apparently it came from throwing rights too hard (and not hitting anything). I went through the medical path (doc, shoulder surgeon, phys therapist, etc) but they all said there was nothing I could do about it except risky surgery.

Anybody else have this problem? It's really irritating because I don't remember it happening at all- I just looked in the mirror one day and noticed it was sagging. Maybe I have really weak tendons or something, but wouldn't this injury happen all the time in martial arts classes if it was really this easy to cause? Now I have like 30% less strength in my right arm over my left and consequently less developed chest and back, and it aches occasionally.

One of the more annoying and SF-related problems it that my shoulders for my suit jacket aren't symmetrical anymore...



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I had AC Joint surgery about 7 months ago. Last year I speperated my shoulder snowboarding at the end of April. The surgery really isn't risky, it is a standard procedure. I blew out all of the muscles holding my collar bone in place and it was sticking up about 2 inches. They just used a tendon from a cadaver, the scar is about 3 inches long, and the surgery took about an hour. Full recovery wasn't until about the 5-6 month mark, and had to wear my arm in a special sling for about 4-6 weeks. My doctor put it this way, without surgery I would gain about 75-80% of my movement back, with I would be at about 95%.
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