Good evening @tsc, I have just read your post to @kcoxit. I hope this member is still posting with Connect so that you can receive a response.

In the meantime Teri, I would like to share some of my experience with RSR in hopes that you will find it helpful.

My right (dominant) shoulder was severely injured in a fall from the American Legion platform down the mountain. The snow plow had removed the railing and I walked right off the deck.
My shoulder was displaced and my elbow had 3 fractures. After a hospital stay and the swelling had gone down, I had surgery to repair my rotator cuff. It failed. A second surgery was scheduled to use cadaver material to replace the damaged rotator cuff. It failed.

My insurance company would not approve an RSR until I had been exposed to opioids, acupuncture, and other known healing agents. They did not work. Finally, the RSR was approved and my surgeon spent considerable time showing me videos and helping me prepare for the surgery.

With help from the engineer of the replacement, I had the surgery. My surgeon even came to the hospital and sat with me to make sure everything went well and I could sleep the first night. All taped up, I went home the following day with high hopes.

Within three days I was out to dinner with friends and learning how to make adjustments in my daily activities e.g. learning how to write left-handed. The surgeon and our local PA chatted and decided on what turned out to be a pretty darn perfect rehabilitation program.

At this point, I have no pain, just some moderate difficulty in eating ice cream cones because my elbow sticks out a bit unevenly. This was not a grueling procedure.

I have every hope that my replacement will be with me for the rest of my life.

May you find a pain-free life and the ability to plant flowers, make ice cream, and dance around the floor whenever you have a chance.

May you be safe, protected, and free from inner and outer harm.
Chris