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Retorn slap tear and worsened rotator cuff tear due to crutches use?

Last February I had a bone growth removed from my left shoulder. 2 months later I broke my ankle and damaged ligaments as well.

Last October I was assaulted and injured my right shoulder.  I already had bilateral MRIs scheduled for the following 2 weeks.

The MRI of my right shoulder showed a large slap tear. My left shoulder had a small rotator cuff tear.  Surgery was scheduled in February this year for my right shoulder.

An MRI of my ankle in September of last year revealed the torn ligaments on a lesion on the medial talar dome.  Surgery was to be decided upon this April.  Surgery was scheduled for august.

In April I was diagnosed with frozen shoulder, conservative treatment was to continue. In June, my surgeon decided to schedule me in for an mua the next week. The scar tissue in my right shoulder was severe.

The scar tissue reformed and a cortisone injection was done the 2nd last week of July.

My ankle surgery in August was supposed to be simple, and an overnight stay was planned. That one night turned into 19 days.

They got me up on my crutches the next day but I was too unstable on them to be released.  I also suffered excruciating pain in both shoulders, and pain down in my right biceps muscle, which I had torn in January.

This became a regular occurrence, I would get a couple of days rest, then back on my crutches.  The entire time I was in hospital using crutches I'd be in agony. There were days in would throw up due to pain.

They sent me on to convalescent care at the end of August, and my surgeon ordered bilateral ultrasounds of my shoulders. That happens in 2 days.

I'm concerned that I've retorn the slap repair and made the rotator cuff tear worse.  I haven't used my crutches in a month. I graduated from a wheelchair to a walker due to my ankle and major complications from that surgery.

Do you think that this could have happened?
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