recovery is terrible. TAKE THE PAIN MEDS !!!!!!!! You won't get hooked. I had to stop the weight work out of the PT because it was 3 days after I still couldn't use my arm . Even 2 months in. I used the pulleys that helped range of motion. Hung them from my skinning machine hoist in my building. Did 2 sets of exercises each morning.Now is time to do it, You don't want to be nursing a shoulder in the spring and summer.

No fun trying to skin a deer with torn rotator cuff. No fun after surgery either. Can’t rush the recovery or the weather. I never got well until hot weather came. In fact I do my home isometric exercises in the shower under hot water spray.

I have had both shoulders done both took 14 weeks then total release for work.
My right shoulder had two tendons torn in to they reattached both got about 80% usage lol