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Originally Posted by Iced
But the fact that the rotator is now pretty much gone is a major concern to me and his saying my delts will take care of what I lost with the rotator damage just seems overly optomistic to me. But then I'm not the doctor and I guess that is why I am posting this here.
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Follow your instincts. Just to address the re-hab portion of it since obviously none of us here can say much about surgery. Hopefully a second surgical opinion will produce better news.
But the kind of pain your are experiencing in the re-hab is not "normal". Discomfort? Sure. Muscle soreness? Sure. But major pain...hell, no. If it hurts that bad then you don't do it...you are simply producing more injury. Maybe some impingement.
It's ironic about the whole "delt" thing. It's the big old internal rotators and the delts getting all the action and the little rotators getting trashed because of it that causes these kinds of problems. The supraspinatus is the most oft injured rotator. It's a little bit funny to think that the delts are going to take care of an issue. If that were the case you never would have noticed a problem, logically.
I think you can overcome, to some extent, the missing muscle. But it doesn't sound at all like you have been prescribed the right things. I'd ditch it, and immediately. Focus on movement without pain for now until you can get better guidance. The KEY, imho, will be to focus on what you CAN do not on what you can't. It may be that overhead lifting and flat bench pressing is never in the cards, I don't know. But I feel pretty sure that if you had the right PT you wouldn't be near as discouraged. Good luck, Iced.
"Strengthen you delts" is a very common arm-chair therapy kinda thing for shoulder injuries. It's sort of like if you say you've injured you back, the most common two responses will simply be "strengthen it" or "stretch it". When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I understand the the pain has decreased but that there is still some. I wouldn't take less pain as a guarantee of good long-term outcome given the very simplistic reasons you've been given. Not all adaptation is good adaptation. Usually the aim is re-hab is a slow return to performance...usable range of motion, etc. Not "lack of or decrease in pain".