Rotator Cuff Surgery Recovery Week 1 - The Sling

I’m navigating rotator cuff surgery recovery while living alone. This video shows taking the sling on/off 1 week after surgery.

[Cya-bebetter]

Thank you...I'm so concerned about the shoulder surgery and yet here you are being very capable and independent...I feel so much better about the surgery and afterwards. Very helpful ideas about where to put straps. Hope you are doing well!

[johnpoulos]

Thank you, very informative! Gives me some peace before my upcoming surgery.

[sadieme]

Thank you for this. I will be having rotator cuff surgery in the near future and I’ll admit that I am very frightened. I too live alone and have three cats which means litter boxes that need cleaning every day. I am hoping that I can get home healthcare nurse to come and assist me for a while and then when the time comes, I can get physical therapy done right in my home so, thank you for this video.

[deannamadrigal]

Thanks, I'm having RC surgery next week and live alone also.
Been watching a lot of videos also.

[Mvcrash]

Very good to know. Trying to learn all I can by surgery day. I have complete tears of my supraspinatus and infraspinatus tendons. Thanks for the information, best of health to you.

[davidhuggins]

Thanks for this vid. I'm having my surgery for my RC next week and this helped.

[dawns]

You are Amazing. I depended on my husband for everything for the first week and a half. I am at week 3 and each day I do more and more independently. I take my sling on and off by sitting on a bed with my arm propped up on a pillow.

[elizabethclaiborne]

Excellent! Thank you!
I live alone too, looking into how to manage. My shoulders so bad am in a sling pre surgery, but it’ll worse after.

[imabanta]

Were you able to drive during your first 4-6 weeks?