Trinity Rehab

About 15 years ago, I tore both my shoulders lifting in college. I had torn cartilage in both and my labrum in my right shoulder according to the MRI. After my consulting an orthopedic, he told me to defer the surgery unless I was a professional athlete, which I’m not, or until the symptoms interfered with my daily life.
Well the torn labrum did indeed catch up with me after 15 years of scar tissue build up and sure enough I started having problems taking my shirts on and off. So surgery was back on the table. That’s when I heard about the EPAT therapy at Trinity Rehab. I’m pretty much a skeptic but since it’s non-​invasive and my other option was going under the knife I gave it a go.
EPAT is no walk in the park but, then again, neither is surgery. They blast your shoulder with some device to break up the scar tissue. Surely not a very pleasant experience while they are working on it which luckily takes under 10 mins but several session in the case of my 15 year old injury. The first is the worst with each one subsequent session being significantly more tolerable. But low and behold after a few weeks I was regaining mobility in my shoulder (they only did my right one).
With daily rehab exercises and EPAT, I can tell you my right shoulder now feels better than my left one. The rehab was too painful and I didn’t have the range of motion to complete my rehab exercises prior to EPAT. This was a huge win for me and the results have been better than my expectations.
After the success of my shoulder, I’ve already gone back back to treat a new hamstring tear I got doing hill sprints. It felt better after only one session and I didn’t have to go back for any more.
I’m a believer and now I’m looking at possibly having this done on several of my other injuries. I’d completely recommend to anyone this prior to surgery. Surgery or not you have to do the rehab to get back the strength so to me it’s why risk complications until you’ve tried the alternatives.