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Success stories: Reverse shoulder replacement surgery
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Good afternoon, I read your story. I had my left shoulder done at the end of 2018. I had no pain at all. I was surprised, I was expecting a lot of pain and I kept waiting but no pain. Now it has been almost 3 yeas. I did my exercises and PT. Everything seemed fine. But now my range of motion is not good. I can not reach behind my back or over to the other arm. I have to use my other arm to push my arm up to put glasses in the cupboard. I do get a shot in my shoulder every now and then if the muscles really hurt. Some times my arm feels swollen and I have to rest it. I have been pushing my arms canning and not done yet. I would enjoy to hear as to your progress in the future. I wish you well and stay safe and healthly. KLH
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I have some problems, too, with range of motion,but overall. I am so pleased with the outcome that I can’t complain. I can still swing dance because the arm is supported through the various turns, and that really satisfies me.
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@kilh thank you for the good wishes! I am sorry to hear that it sounds like you are losing your range of motion. I don't know much about what's medically possible joint-wise after a TSR, but could you be experiencing frozen shoulder/adhesive capsulitis now in your TSR shoulder?
Before I had any right shoulder pain, I went through frozen shoulder which took a couple of years to develop, never did have good behind the back twists with my right arm. Eventually when I could no longer get my hand up to my head to help wash hair, I finally asked to be referred to physical therapy to do something about it. I never felt shoulder pain at that time, just a limited range of movement. I was skeptical that PT would help, because I was an active person so felt that I should be moving my arm enough to keep this from happening. But PT did help by designing exercises that stretched the particular areas, and I got back to about 80% of my range of movement in about 6 weeks. So I'm wondering if there is something PT could do to help you regain some of your range of motion if indeed the problem is adhesive capsulitis.