Thank you for sharing this wealth of information. Surgeon has a PT center in premises and wants to begin PT very soon after surgery. Do you have name of the chair? I appreciate you taking the time to respondMy mother had this done in February. She had a good result. Not as painful as her knee replacement which I understand is because of the removal of lots of the soft tissue (rotator cuff, tendons, etc.). I would push for him to go to a rehab place post surgery for a week or so and then have in home care rather than relying on you or someone to take him to therapy, doctors, etc., several times per week. My mom also got this chair (rented) that has passive range of motion. She sat in it with her arm in this thing and the chair moved her arm up and down very slowly which helped her not get edema or locked shoulder. By the time she was able to do PT on her own, she hadn’t lost the strength, flexibility, etc., that she would have if she just sat there waiting til it was time. Also, she had this “ice machine” that looked like a large thermos. You put ice packs and water in it. Then there are tubes that go from the Ice machine up to this shoulder harness. You put that harness up on the shoulder and draped across the front and back of the upper arm and turn the machine on. It circulates the ice water thru the tube and is much easier to keep ice on, which she had to do for like 20 minutes at a time every hour. Fill it up once per day and it stayed cold all day. After she was in rehab for two weeks, she came to our house for two weeks because she is 85 and lives alone and I wanted to make sure this chair worked and that she was complying with her restrictions and doing the icing and taking all her meds. If she was at home, she would have been driving and working in the garden the next day
No help but sending warm wishes for a speedy and successful surgery. For you both!
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