Again, in our particular case we are lucky so-to-speak that it was his left shoulder injured and he is a RHP. No guarantees in anything, all we can do is work real hard and hope and pray for the best.

if you are lifting weight (curling) and monsterous pain hits your forearm and then thereafter the pain from the elbow (lateral epicondyle) to top of forearm muscle is in pain and hard to straighten out for weeks on end. Will this heal naturally or will it require surgury to reattach the muscle/ligament/tendon back onto the outside elbow bone? just curious?

for example, if the elbow (bone - outside) hits a door jam while walking through and you feel immediate pain, this is another example of the pain involved. Hard to lift using the injured arm. Pushing on something produces no pain at all. But pulling something back up with palms down (not up) produces major forearm pain.