Discovered I’ve 50-60% tear however I am no longer in any ache

So I’ve kind of a weird and unusual path to my diagnosis of a rotator cuff tear and I’m not sure if I need surgery despite what my doctor suggested, however I’ll share how this happened:

I was a pitcher in high school baseball, pitched many years with no pain or problems. I took 5 years off and didn’t play ball in college. I picked up baseball again at 23 years old and have been playing the last 8 years. At 23 years old if I tried to pitch or threw more than 1 or 2 innings I would experience gradual but terrible pain in my bicep/tricep areas that would “throb” and grow in pain. It would cause my arm to get weaker and I could feel pain all the way down to my finger tips. Painkillers, icing, stretching, nothing helped. Had xrays/MRIs on my arm but nothing came up.

The pain got worse as I aged and decided last spring to get it looked at again. This doctor was scratching his head looking at older MRI’s and a fresh xray so he sent me to physical therapy. PT guessed it was a pinched nerve probably originating in my neck. 2 and a half weeks later I had no progress so they looked for one more thing and found something: I HAD A DISLOCATED FIRST RIB poking into my shoulder and pinching a major nerve cluster under my armpit. In 3-4 sessions of them manipulating the rib back into place all my pain disappeared. I can now throw 7+ inning with no pain at all.

I decided in September after the season was over to get it xrayed just to double check and make sure the rib was back in place okay and there wasn’t any other issue. I have good insurance and it didn’t cost me anything. The doctor x-rayed my shoulder and found no issue with my rib, or anything that indicated it was ever out of place (not sure if this means the Physical Therapists were wrong, but what they did worked). He moved my arm around in different positions and said I might have a tissue tear in my shoulder and recommended an Arthrogram and MRI. I agreed.

I just was old yesterday that I have:

-Full thickness tearing of the posterior 50-60% of the supraspinatus tendon insertion



-Low-grade undersurface partial tearing of infraspinatus tendon, with mild teninopathy



-Intact biceps tendon with mild diffuse thinning suggesting mild chronic type II partial tearing

My jaw hit the floor when he said I should stop throwing and have surgery when I’m ready (anytime in the next 12 months or two). I’ve zero ache, I will throw nice, I assumed all my issues have been solved, now I am heartbroken. My Bodily Therapist advised me that if I am now not in ache I might preserve taking part in, however each she and the physician mentioned that I do chance tearing it/injuring it additional.

What could be completely different about surgical treatment/restoration at 50-60% tear vs surgical procedure/restoration for a full tear if I injured it additional?

Must I’ve the surgical operation? Or must I preserve enjoying except I am in ache?

Are my days enjoying baseball over?

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