03 Jan Danny Bellmore – Rehab and Another Cervicle Spine Fusion

I completed the 2017 APF Senior Nationals. With just a small set back the meet went fairly well. I finished with a win in the Masters and the Open. I will be going into a long off season with nothing planned as far as meets go.

I am actively rehabbing my back with the protocol laid out by Dr. McGill . If you have been following my log you know I have had some pretty significant neck issues from a freak accident that happened this past summer. I have been playing the insurance game for about 5 months. Insurances don’t want to pay for shit so everything is a fight or an outright battle. I started with the high doses of prednisone then came the injections with nothing doing a damn thing for me. I finally had a meeting with a neurosurgeon on the 2nd, he was less than impressed that I was made to wait for such a long period of time. The prognosis is that I have a crushed disc along with a impinged nerve causing the neck pain and numbness on my left side radiating into the shoulder. The facet joint is warn out causing the vertebrae to move depending on my head position. I have had three x-rays at different times with that one vertebra showing in a different position each time. There is a concern with a few of my symptoms because the have nothing to do with the c-3/c-4 impingement, it points to my occipital nerve. Right now there is no way to tell if the occipital nerve is being agitated by the tight muscles in the neck or if the hit caused more damage than we think. We will soon find out, I will be going under the knife in a few weeks so we will soon find out.

Now I am not going to be getting on my soap box screaming that I will be coming back with a vengeance. At this point I will say that I will get shit fixed and then see how I feel after that. I have had 6 surgeries since 2011 and I will admit I am getting tired. The comebacks are increasingly longer as I get older. If all goes well we will see where it leads.

I want to give special thanks to Brian Carrol for supplying me with the best Inzer gear and Captain Jacked supplements. I also want to thank all of my teammates I have learned and benefitted from each and every one of you in one way or another. It is nice to be tied in with a great bunch.

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Danny Bellmore

Danny has been involved in powerlifting since 1994. The first swing at a career was short lived due to a major back injury in 1999 that resulted in a 3-level spinal (lumbar) fusion. At that point, he took a 10-year break. Avoiding the gym all together because his body, and back, just never felt right. In 2010, Danny went to handle a good friend at a local meet. That experience re-ignited the fire within and he was back under the bar, never looking back. Danny established an elite total at my first meet back in 2010 and then accomplished a win at the 2012 APF Masters Nationals. Through his win at the APF Masters, he was training using the Conjugate Method, but he wanted a change. He needed a change. Danny reached out to a friend who stated that Brian and the Samson Barbell crew had it going on. In the process of connecting with Brian, he has endured a few setbacks. During our initial discussions, he had torn my rotator cuff and labrum, along with a separated AC joint. The surgery did not "take" and just nine months later, he was back under the knife for a "do-over." During the healing process, he had lost feeling and strength in my right arm. Being pig headed, he waited and waited. My choice to remain stubborn backfired, and I was back in the OR for another spinal (cervical) fusion. Now healed, and a few years under Brian, Danny’s total has moved to 1871 @ 165. He doesn’t like to predict or talk about goals, but he wants more, and feels like he has more. Plans now are to compete at the Senior Nationals in Jacksonville, Florida this June.

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