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Im a 40 year old man and I had a full thickness, almost full width supraspinatus tendon tear repaired in early june. I used subcutaneously injected BPC-157 starting day 3 after surgery through week 5. I stopped when the sling was ready to go off because my understanding is that after initial healing its not going to help any more with tissue remodeling. Obviously, I dont have a control group so I can't say if it helped or not. However, I just passed week 6 post-op and I have full passive range of motion in all directions except for reaching behind my back. I have no pain at rest, minimal pain in active external rotation, laying shoulder flexion, and laying active abduction. Standing flexion and abduction are still slightly painful and more difficult than normal, but im doing all activities of daily living including desk work and some light actual working with my hands work (I work in a lab). I would definitely not credit the peptide for everything, I was obsessive with physical therapy

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Im a 40 year old man and I had a full thickness, almost full width supraspinatus tendon tear repaired in early june.

I used subcutaneously injected BPC-157 starting day 3 after surgery through week 5. I stopped when the sling was ready to go off because my understanding is that after initial healing its not going to help any more with tissue remodeling.

Obviously, I dont have a control group so I can't say if it helped or not. However, I just passed week 6 post-op and I have full passive range of motion in all directions except for reaching behind my back. I have no pain at rest, minimal pain in active external rotation, laying shoulder flexion, and laying active abduction. Standing flexion and abduction are still slightly painful and more difficult than normal, but im doing all activities of daily living including desk work and some light actual working with my hands work (I work in a lab).

I would definitely not credit the peptide for everything, I was obsessive with physical therapy during sling time: passive stretches 6x per day every day, with no exceptions. Last week when active started I did 2 active pt sessions per day along with the passive stretches that I still felt were helpful (5-6x per day) and yesterday I increased to active PT 3x per day.

So at the end of the day Im in a good spot, but I have also been far more attentive to PT than many people are. If you do start the peptide, still keep up with the PT, its more important.

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