After reverse shoulder replacement, patients wear a sling for just two weeks instead of longer. Early movement prevents muscle loss and osteopenia, helping you recover faster and get back to normal activities sooner.
Ask any shoulder patient what their least favorite thing about recovery is, and they will say this shoulder sling. So I try to limit the sling as much as possible. With reverse shoulder replacements, I only use a sling for 2 weeks. That means right away people are out moving, and I think there's several benefits there. One is they get a quicker recovery, and second, I actually believe there's less chance of getting disuse osteopenia and atrophy the muscle that actually can lead to complications. So as safely as we can, we want to get somebody out of the sling to help their recovery and help them get their Life back.
