After 4 weeks from my surgery my shoulder is feeling really good exceptionally good. As you can see from the pics below my left collarbone looks a little wonky. I think this is from the appearance of the plate on top of the bone. There is a light pinkish scar where the incision was made but hardly noticeable at this stage.
The great news is that my Doctor says I am very fortunate to be in the top 1% of surgical clavicle cases in terms of the recovery, surgery, healing, etc... I still do my rehab exercises daily and during my daily walks down to Trestles I take a ball to stretch my shoulder. In addition I have been using cold/heat pads at least 3 times a day for at least 20 minutes. I regularly massage the scar to break up scar tissue and to increase blood flow/circulation to the area. I would say I have about 95% mobility/flexibility with about .5 pain on a scale from 1-10. There is some residual soreness in my shoulder which the Doctor said is from the plate in my rotator cuff irritating the surrounding muscles. I am hopeful that my body will adapt until the plate is removed in 2 months and for all soreness to be gone so I can really focus on strength and flexibility.
This week I plan on hitting the water either swimming and/or surfing. I can do at least 20 full push-ups and mimic paddling fine and feel with a few more days hopefully only stiffness will remain.
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