Brett

We did receive the report and CD's and Dr Busconi has evaluated them.

As you may figure out, it is hard to evaluate a patient and get a good feel on what is old and what is a new injury by just viewing a film and not getting a clinical evaluation.
However, Dr Busconi will e-mail you his thoughts and recommendations today.

He did explain to me that he thought that it would be very beneficial that you have a shoulder specialist in Australia evaluate you and your MRI and then have that physician contact Dr Busconi with his/her findings and then we can discuss a treatment plan.

In order to expediate the process I suggest that you go to the MRI facility and get another copy of the MRI/Arthrogram and bring them with you to the physician visit.

Dr Busconi did feel that you did not have a labrial tear (which is very good news) and he thought that most of your discomfort was from the severe bruising of the humeral head.

He also noticed that you have a partial tear of the rotator cuff but he could not determine if this is a result of your injury or if this is something that you had for a long time.
It is not uncommon for athletes (throwing) to have a partial tear and not even have know it.

So why not get started to look into who you can get to see you and who as a good reputation for shoulder injuries and make sure that you let me know when you set this up as well as all of the contact information for the physician.

I know you are bored now and that you must be going crazy but patience is a virtue and we need to make sure that we get this right the first time or this problem could linger around for a long time.

Talk with you soon.
Jim Young