Shoulder....Venting

[Catrin]

Saw my DO PCP today for a talk and he mentioned something that helped to put things in context. It helped me and thought it might help others.

He said that osteoarthritis isn't a primary cause but the consequences of our body attempting to normalize an abnormality - such as a bone spur trying to close a gap left by torn soft tissue/tendon/whatever. Or my trashed bicep tendon that subluxes and THAT can only happen if a certain very small shoulder ligament that can't be seen in an MRI is torn.

It is a different way of looking at it and, well I've quite a lot OA, it helps to see it from this perspective. Everything happens for a reason and that includes this.

[Pax]

My DO told me something similar a few years ago. She let me know that my body is simply responding to what was/is being done to it. Living is hard on the body, no matter how careful we are... I was decidedly NOT careful when I was younger.