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After reverse shoulder surgery

Joint Replacements | Last Active: Nov 15, 2022 | Replies (10)

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@jime707

Hello Elaine, I’m Jim. I had the the same procedure on my right shoulder on October 7th. By March 7th my PT cut me loose from further sessions since he said just going about my life with daily exercise should get me back to close to my original range of motion. So that was twice a week sessions for almost 5 months. My surgeon definitely just handed me over to the PT who knew more of the necessary stretching (some with pain that I had to relax into) and strengthening exercises to get back to what I had once experienced. Today I don’t even think about it. A little limitation in tucking in my shirt and I can’t quite get my arm pointing straight up from raising it up from the side nor from from the forward position. But I can reach the top shelf again! . I had a PT who I trusted and who I had a history with. I don’t know your specific situation but if you don’t trust your PT I would certainly get an evaluation from another PT. You say your surgeon offered to redo your surgery. Is something wrong? I agree that I would try everything else first! My best to you.

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Thank you Jim. I do trust my PT guy. He's really good and said he had never seen a case like mine. About a month after surgery I went back to my surgeon because of pain. He said the prothesis had "slipped" and the only remedy was to repeat the surgery, saying it would help the pain but not the mobility. A couple of months later I complained about the same thing and he said I had "fractured" it. Again, only help would be surgery.

It is not as good now as it was before the surgery. I think I need another opinion; am trying to determine with medicare how I go about this.

My surgeon is like, "oh well"