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[RobHall]

I thought I would pass on my thoughts. First is that yes, you should get this surgery if you have a grade 3 separation. The pain of the surgery is far beyond anything I have ever experienced of which I have experienced much due to most ultras not going how I planned and the multitude of soft tissue injuries I seem  to come up with.

The surgeons will try to talk you out of it but don't have a bar of it or you will end up with a wonky freaky looking shoulder for life or you will have to get worse surgery later on as a reconstruction rather than a stabilisation.

So suck it up princess and get onto it now and get ready for some serious pain

[Tony123]

So that is what the ac joint is, AFL players seem to injure it all the time.  Must have been a tough decision to go against what the surgeon recommended, but it sounds like the right decision.

[RobHall]

I asked these 2 questions "which one will make the shoulder the strongest" and "will the bones reconnect themselves?" What I should have asked "imagine it was you, what would you do?" Anyway the arguments against the surgery were all short term for cost and pain