I am about 8 weeks out from reverse TSR and am very pleased with the results. No more nagging constant arthritic pain, day and night. I have only a few more scheduled PT appointments left, and am now doing shoulder strengthening weight machine exercises, and have started band exercises at home. My therapist feels that I can soon continue on my own, with a scheduled visit only every two weeks so he can monitor my progress and keep me from getting lax about exercising.

Before surgery, my right arm had very limited range of movement, some days I could barely lift a coffee cup, all showering and hair washing was done with my left hand only. Combed hair with my left hand, just about impossible to use a hair dryer or curling iron. And the constant low level arthritis pain that would sometimes become sharper.

I still have a way to go in my recovery of strength and have limited movement in some directions, all of which should improve with more time and exercise. But even if I don't ever improve above where I am now, the surgery would have been well worth it. I knew of two people personally that had successful TSR's and of another in-law of a friend that had both shoulders done, so I had high hopes before surgery that mine would work out, and it has.