Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

Carolyn's Remarkable Shoulder Replacement Journey Part 3

31 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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Carolyn wore a sling for 3.5 weeks after shoulder replacement, fully off it by 4-6 weeks while doing therapy, and returned to work at four months. Dr. Schacter explains that shoulder replacements typically need 4-6 weeks in a sling and can take 2-5 years to reach full recovery.

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About three and a half weeks (able to remove it when seated or during therapy).

After four to six weeks the sling was off.

Probably about four months.

It can take two to five years to get as good as it's going to get.

After that four to six weeks the sling was off. Now I can do anything I did before.
One of the arguments that we make for biologics is that there's not very much downtime.
Now a shoulder.
Replacement have to be in the sling for four to six weeks. It can take two to five years to get as good as it's going to get. But what did you experience?
I was in the sling about three and a half weeks and then I could take it out when I sat down or when I was doing therapy but after that four to six weeks the sling was off I was doing my therapy and now I can do anything I did before.
How long did it take you to get back to doing work?
Probably about four months so it can.
Take a lot longer. Sometimes our only option is surgical intervention and there's there's certainly instances in which doing regenerative therapies or other types of injections are not appropriate and this was one of them definitely one of them.