Something about you and your post strike me as being off somehow. Perhaps it's your terminology. Maybe it's nothing. What do I know...

Jose you made the right call. And your Buddie climbing in pain with a torn rotator cuff will understand soon enough. If he pushes that 'till surgery is required he'll be out of action for 6 months and if he pushes that too hard too fast he'll be pretty much done climbing hard for good.

Hope your knee mends...

Some end their career early, some have major surgery.

A friend of mine who is a climbing guide recently had to have surgery on his shoulder. His surgeon, who was also a climbing friend of his, said no climbing for 1 year. For anyone that would suck but for a climbing guide that would suck bigtime

you made a good call.

This was my shoulder in 2004...



The injury was traumatic, as opposed to degenerative, making the repair more successful as the Doctor did not have to resect a bunch of inflamed diseased tissue. I was out climbing easy stuff and doing peaks in 6 months, but it took a year to be back at full strength.

Oh, I think the type of skiing Shortimer is talking about above involves being pulled across the surface of a lake at high speed...

I find almost all injuries (big ones) take about 1 year to heal back to full strength...unless it takes longer...


And to Joe.... it's best to take some time off i agreeewith you.

gk

I hear you dude. Shattered a kneecap myself and ruined a lot of the accesory stuff... and put myself out of action for around two years by trying to come back too quickly. A tough lesson but a good one to learn.