Would you manage reemergent pain associated with a long ago ruptured bursa any differently than bog standard elbow pain?
I believe I ruptured the bursa in my rt embow about 25 years ago after slipping going down a flight of stairs but never got a real diagnosis. By the following morning it was outrageously swollen so I went to the team docs and they landed on that as the likely explanation after only looking at it long enough to rule out any fractures or more serious stuff. They just gave me NSAIDs for pain and told me to return to activity as tolerance allows.
25 years on I dont have any real problems with it, except I am a clutz and frequently bang it on things and every time I do it is exquisitely tender for a week or more. Pain running through my body like I’ve been hit with a tazer. And this is where I am now after banging it on the shower wall on saturday. Yesterday I was supposed to incline bench but it was still super sore even working it through unweighted RoM. Warm up weights were ny any more painful so I just increased slowly as tolerance allowed and capped it at about 50% of what I’d otherwise expected to do. That is kind of my plan…every day do something to load it through ROM up to tolerance, until I can do enough weight that doing it every day is probably too much and then try to return to something more like a normal schedule.
How reasonable is that? And bigger question, does this seem like the likely after effects of a long ago ruptured bursa?