I will be 4 weeks post-op tomorrow 6/9 from a SLAP repair and slight tightening of my capsule.  I will finally be out of my sling tomorrow, although for the past weeek I haven't been wearing it at home when I'm not doing anything.  So far I must say that my recovery has been about as easy as a recovery from shoulder surgery can be.  My ROM is great (almost full right now!!), haven't been in a lot of pain, and am feeling good about myself.  I think thinking positive is half the battle to feeling good, so let that be a lesson to those of you out there.

PT is going well (man it's nice working for a PT clinic!!) and we have gradually been adding some scapular exercises.  Tried some AAROM for flexion laying on back last week and some AROM the same way with my PT guiding my arm.  OK, so we know that was a little early since I was only 3 1/2 weeks out, but when your boss is your PT and a shoulder expert who treats pro-baseball players, you go with the flow.  Was a little sore the next morning, but not too bad.  We decided to hold on those exercises the next time though.  Will add those back in this week though.  My PT stopped stretching flexion since it is almost full and has never touched ER (I now have about 90^o   at 90^o abduction--without ever stretching it) so we are just working on IR and a little bit of abduction.  But it won't be too long before he doesn't have to stretch me at all.

My only complaint at this point is a little bit of catching in the front of my shoulder I've had for the past couple of weeks caused by scar tissue.  It's really uncomfortable when it catches and then releases, but my PT says that it's normal.  Especially since on top of the SLAP repair I had right by my biceps tendon, I also had my capsule tightened in that same area (OS pleated the capsule around the portal that he went in through in the front of my shoulder to tighten it up a little).  So I had a lot going on right underneath the portal in front of my shoulder making it easy for some scar tissue to start building up.  So I must keep massaging the portals to keep this to a minimum.  But if this is my biggest complaint at this point, I am doing all right!!!  So for those of you contemplating surgery, it is possible to have a great recovery!!!--so don't fear!!!