Dislocated Shoulder again, but speedy recovery

[Jefferson Steelflex]

I could wait until I see the specialist in 6 days time but I’m impatient....

Last week I dislocated my left shoulder again, second time in 30 months albeit this time it was an anterior dislocation as opposed to the rather less common inferior dislocation I had last time. Sadly (and embarrassingly) both were the result of fking about in the gym.

Anyway, after the initial and obvious pain and discomfort, 3 days in and I had no obvious issues and as advised by the A&E doc I had discarded the sling after 2 days anyway. The weird thing is, I have almost full movement in the shoulder already and pretty much zero pain after 5 days.

This is a massive contrast to last time, when I was out of a sling after 3 days but spent the next 2 weeks slowly building up movement and strength and everything was an effort.

As advised, I haven’t and won’t be doing any overhead stuff yet, but lateral, forward, back movements are all fine as is interior and exterior rotation. My question is, what do I do with this and why is it so much better than last time?

I’m thinking of doing some early physio stuff, I still have the guides from last time, and working up to REALLY strengthening my rotator cuff this time. I am assuming that on this occasion I haven’t caused nearly as much damage to the joint and therefore I’m seeing much better recovery time but I’d like to be very careful not to overdo it, but of course I’m massively impatient to not be a one-arm burden on my family.