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Anna Bundschuh suffered from an injured, unstable shoulder for two years. The now 27-year-old army officer from Linz had to severely limit her sporting ambitions and participation in competitions. “I couldn’t lift my arm properly anymore and I was always in pain. It only got a little better with tablets,” says Bundschuh, who is now – after a successful operation – fighting for the place on the winner’s podium again. But the way back was a long one.
It all started with an obstacle course in which Anna Bundschuh slipped shortly after the start and fell unhappily on her left shoulder. “I dislocated my shoulder, but it popped back in on its own.” She made it to the finish line and secured second place for herself and her team, but from then on she had to give up her beloved CrossFit training.
The operation lasted an hour
An operation was unavoidable, but it did not bring the desired result – there was no question of being pain-free. Two years after the “accident,” she turned to Primary Reinhold Ortmaier, who heads orthopedics at the Linz Order Hospital and specializes in shoulder problems. “It turned out that the joint lip and also the attachment of the long biceps tendon to the socket were still damaged, so that the long biceps tendon had to be relocated and the joint lip had to be sutured,” explains the expert.
The procedure lasted around an hour. Afterwards, Anna Bundschuh had to wear a shoulder sling for several weeks. The doctor’s prognosis: “After three to six months, the shoulder will be fully resilient again.” His predictions were confirmed: the 27-year-old’s sporting achievements are impressive. In her first swimming competition, Bundschuh secured the gold medal three times at the Traun city championships. The 27-year-old also made it onto the podium in the Upper Austrian state powerlifting championships and took third place. “I can now finally train several times a week again without any pain,” she says. Her current goal: to compete at the eighth Mühlviertler Deadlifting Championships in Freistadt in November and lift 145 kilos. In the summer it was “only” 120 kilograms
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