hi paul, glad the surgery appeared to work for you. the one thing that i would do here, is at the very least, see a good PT if only for a full eval on that shoulder(run thru all ROMS) and to get some good solid and safe types of possible excercises you can at leat do at home that would be the best thing to help with that one particular ROM you are still having pain in? and to of course just see how well things are actually moving in there at this point too?
my rotator surgery was absolute hell for me and the one and only surgery where i HAD to actually HAVE PT to fully rehab as far as my ortho surgeries i have had went. that rotator area and that really highly mobile joint up there too just 'do" soo freaking much and when things go 'down' it will usually take a bit of extra help in regaining everything again? i know you don't have ins right now, thats the only reason i sugested the doing the consult eval thing only, or i would have told you to maybe even do some sessions with that PT too for awhile too? but just finding out when they run you thru all ROMS that things appear to be actually healing nicely and getting that expert opinion and the strengthining excercises, really will help to get things back in the best way. but you really should just see a good therepist at this point anytime we still have pain post op this far out?
was there ANY other real damage in there that required the ortho to actually "do' any clean up or any problems with that supraspinatus tendon that runs across the very top of that shoulder from the neck out to the top of the shoulder area? mine was actually snapped in half when i had my MRI done, among a huge list of other crappy stuff too. but my ortho pretty much made it sound like it was indeed my supra issues that kept ME from being able to hold my arm up above my head without a TON of real solid pain. just wondering what your ortho did in there besides that slap?
but i really would go the PT eval route right now with not having ins. you just do need to find out what you need to know, and bascially if what you are still feeling is a not yet actually rehabbed ROM that simply needs more work or an actual 'issue' of some kind. this would be the cheapest? but i did want to mention one thing to you? it IS possible that if you had to actually see your surgeon here on this particular area he DID simply operate on that you might NOT actually have to really 'pay' for it still? most surgeries have alot of pre set types of visits actually 'allowed' after certain surgeries too? i know this was the case with my rotator? i thought i was going to have to do a co pay much further out from my actual surgical date, but as long as it was FOR that shoulder he worked on i didn't? the time frame may have passed on that, but it wouldn't hurt to at least call his office and check? that way you could at least see him again too? just a thought i had hit me here.
hope that helped some. i know how horrid my post op recovery was from my rotator stuff and it WAS pretty painful and much more lengthy and involved than any others. and most definitely DID force me to have a good PT person to even begin to get all my ROMS back again. hope all is well in there. FB
