Recovery After Shoulder Surgery - Phase 1 - Physical Therapy Exercises at Home 

I had my surgery two days ago. The videos help. Since I can not afford to get physical therapy. On SS. No one to help me. Own my own. I try doing these like five to six times. For the two to three times I was to do. Five times makes up for the three times. Only do so much. I am 67. But determined to keep moving like instructions show. Thank you. Got a long way to go.

Having been through this surgery three times (soon to be four), I know the drill...and this is an outstanding video...thanks for posting. I'd like to offer one piece of advice that will help every single one of you about to undergo this procedure. STARTING 2-3 WEEKS BEFORE YOUR SURGERY, begin practicing things you normally do with your soon-to-be unusable arm. For example, once you start driving again, if your left shoulder was the one repaired, you won't be able to use that arm to shut your car door after you get in. Think about that. My solution was to get my crow bar, rubber band a sock around the curved end so I don't scratch anything, and then use that with my right arm to grab the door handle to shut the door. Practice brushing your teeth with your other hand if your dominant arm will be the compromised one. Practice wiping with your other hand after going #2 if the hand you usually use is the one being disabled. Practice eating with your other hand - and see which foods are easy or hard to eat with one arm disabled. See what you can or cannot cook with one arm. Start using your computer mouse with your other hand. I could go on and on. What I did was dedicate an entire day where I basically kept my soon-to-be unusable arm behind my back and forced myself to use the other arm to see what I'd have trouble with, and then use the next 2-3 weeks to get used to using the other arm. Trust me on this, folks...you will thanks me a million times over. Good luck to you. And one final piece of advice: your physical therapy is the only opportunity you have to control your own destiny in terms of the quality of your repair. You can have the best surgeon in the nation (mine certainly is one of them), but his or her work will be rendered useless if you don't work your ass off on the PT. The surgeon's success is largely determined by what you do at PT, not their ability. Go beast mode at PT!

Having a Complete Reverse Total Shoulder Replacement, this Thursday, 3/9, with a fabulous IBJI Orthopedic Surgeon. Pretty nervous but have faith in him and I’m in severe pain…can’t handle it much longer.

Excellent video! Very helpful recommendations and good information on what to do after surgery.

I had shoulder surgery to repair a labrum tear and had a tenodesis performed 3 weeks ago. 3 days after the surgery I moved my arm by releasing the wrist from the immobilizer to be able to use the restroom and I felt a pop and my arm went numb. The surgeon saw me about 10 days after surgery and noticed I had Popeye arm and when I explained what happened he said that the tenodesis came loose and I now had a tenotomy. He said he would leave it like that since I had complications after surgery ( pneumonia by aspirated blood from lacerated throat when intubating). I started therapy last week and he ordered pretty aggressive therapy since I had a frozen shoulder when he performed the surgery. I can't even do the wall walk because I have 0 strength. I have also been having very sharp pains starting under the armpit that extends down the back of my arm to my fingers and towards my chest and scapula. I have been getting very sharp pains on my bicep and cramps. Is all this normal? I'm worried because I had surgery on my left shoulder 3 years ago to repair a torn rotator,labrum and had a tenodesis done and recovered great without all these issues. I'm worried something else besides that bicep tendon popped. The surgeon is on vacation and so are therapists so I'm starting a home based therapy using your videos this week. Thanks.

I'ma driving it's a little difficult but I have to. Your information is Good. .. Thx.

Thank you doctor for the exercises how long I have to stick to these exercises... I'm suffering from a broken collarbone. I am now in physical therapy.

👌🟣#術後前兩週內 的運動方式: 🌹4:39 解下肩護具 1.🌹5:18 把#兩肩胛骨在上背做出相向靠近後在緩緩放鬆回原位 的動作-醫學上稱之為scapular retraction ❇️5:28 5:39 2.🌹5:51 緩緩的做#屈肘再伸直肘 的活動 3.🌹6:11 上臂貼在身體兩側，保持肘關節屈曲約90度的姿勢，去#活動腕關節。 4.🌹6:33 #手掌反覆做捏放軟球。 5.🌹6:47 以健側手撐在桌面再傾身向下，靠上半身體的微幅動作帶出手術側的上肢在慣性作用下的被動活動-#鐘擺運動。這可以是向前、後方向的擺動，也可以是朝著地面上畫圓般的繞動上肢。記著，只有軀幹發力，上肢只是懸垂著、被身體帶動產生動作。

I had the surgery 1.5 years ago. I’m pretty much back to normal but I’m still scared to go back to my routine (heavy) workout.

I just had Rotator cuff and torn muscle repairs 2/13/24. I don't want to ever do this again. Physical therapist said it's an emotional healing process also.

Day 5 for me. Should I begin these steps now? Thank you.

Sir can you check the workout shown in this daily

is this done the day after the surgery?

What they don't talk about is the Pain, and Bruising....

Thank you doctor

I just had a total reverse shoulder 6 day's ago. They started PT at the hospital before I was even coherent?! I've been doing all of these movements as well as shoulder abduction, with a long dowel and shoulder external rotation also with a long dowel, both of which ae causing me immense pain and are to be done 4 times a day?!!!! I walk around in tears and cant sleep due to the pain though I'm exhausted beyond words. I hope I'm not hurting myself by doing what I've been instructed to do? My neck and shoulder blade hurt sooooo bad too.

Will these series of post operation exercises work for broken collarbone or fractured clavicle where they have to use a plate and screws to attach the bones together?

Knowledable video

Thanks

This is interesting since another video said if you're comfortable, you can drive after 3 days! So what's the truth?

What type of shoulder surgery is this for?

With the ball exercise when do you advise that should be done home many days after surgery

How many days is recommended sick leave from work after shoulder surgery?

I had distal clavicle excision surgery. I noticed that I wasn’t doing some of the exercises that those that had rotator cuff surgery had. Is that normal? Are some exercises different or is it because distal clavicle surgery isn’t as involved as rotator cuff surgery and I just didn’t need those exercises.

How long or rep sets?

What type of surgery she had

Dr pain is my shoulder after 3 weeks what should I do

Tack🙂

WHY would the exercise ball get "lost"?

Surgery cost pls sir

Having Surgery next at a Top Northwestern Surgeon,,,2 1/2 tears in rotator cuff...And he said dont wear sling at home,,,And I can drive!!!So every Dr. is different I guess!!

It does not appear that the gal in this video has had any type of shoulder surgery at all! This is not realistic.

The patient is cute

You need to do videos showing the actual target population. Ortho bros have endless videos featuring young muscular men and whatever young women happen to be hanging around the office getting paid a tiny fraction of what the orthos get. But that's not who's getting tenodesis. Barbara down there is getting tenodesis. Audrey. Gen X and Boomer women. You need to show realistic people because otherwise nothing looks like anything recognizable, which of course you don't care about. God I hate ortho and its bro culture. 6%, ladies and gents. 6% of orthopedic surgeons are women. In 2022. Why? Because guys like this are horrible to them in med school and haze them away when they say they want to do ortho, even now.

What they don't talk about is the Pain, and Bruising....