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There seem to be a lot of different surgeons with a lot of different ideas about the balance between keeping things moving and avoiding doing yourself further injury.
I'm now three and a bit weeks post op and if I was following doctors orders I'd be wearing a sling all the time, not running, not cycling and definitely not raising my arm above my shoulder until my six week follow-up. As it happens I ditched the sling after two weeks and have been religiously doing all of the exercises that eastend posted earlier (including the above the shoulder ones for the last few days). I can see the logic for not getting the bike for another couple of weeks, but I reckon the only reason I've been told not to run is because I might fall over. Given that I haven't fallen over for a decade or so I've decided to ignore that bit of advice as well.
Which is a roundabout way of saying that I went for a run this morning. And it felt good...