Most people are weak and dysfunctional after injury.
Treatments to it to alleviate pain can work for a short time, but usually just that, to temporarily to take away the pain. Then the pain comes back, there is usually zero consideration to how strong that joint/muscle is, because unless that joint/muscle gets strong again, then that area will always remain weak, will come and go in terms of pain and will often be prone to being injured again in the future.
When you lift a weight, simply stabilising the weight is harder than you think. You have to control the shaking, steady the weight and then perform the rep of the exercise. Same with a balance exercise with a medicine ball thrown in too, the task gets much harder.
As you go up in weights, assuming you are doing the movement right, the joint/muscle gets a lot stronger, you are able to control force on it much easier and it becomes much more resilient to injury. This is the correct pathway after injury and where you need to end up again, rather than shrugging your shoulders and accepting it “will always be weaker so lets give up on it”.
Another contrast is someone in their mid 30’s/40s/50s suddenly playing a football match for example after many years not practicing the skills involved. The risk of strain or even serious injury is remarkably high, going from a non active lifestyle to a full blow game is almost asking for trouble,
Then recovery becomes ultra important, because weaker muscles/joints as we get older only set the stage for falls, long term weakness and generally movement restrictions that can blight our lives, making us watch life from the sidelines and not taking part much anymore.
I urge you to keep following the process, keep making your body strong, keep working on your balance under pressure of extra weights, and realising that regaining full movement in the joint/muscle is the TRUE path to healing, getting it to work properly again, and regaining confidence it will never be weak again, which as many of you have experienced only makes you unstable, prone to falls and living in pain.
