Last night I shot my first arrows since November. Three strings of 4 arrows at 20-30-30 Yards. That said I will leave this bit of advice.
If you have to have rotator cuff surgery; make sure your getting the best surgeon your money or insurance can buy and then DONT **** up the recovery.
Backstory
On 1-12-23 I had rotator cuff surgery with a bicep tendesis from a local surgeon who did the exact same procedure on my wife and was highly regarded in Austin. I was very disciplined about doing the PT even at home knowing Elk season was only 2 months after scheduled full recovery.
On 3-5-23 out of my sling already and while spectating at daughters VB tournament a ball came off the court to me and I instinctively played it popping the bicep anchor. Revisited with my doc, who confirmed while recommending to do nothing. Went on to hunt last fall but visited my knee surgeon at the Steadman clinic where the pros and Olympians go, where he recommended repairing and cleaning up the scar tissue. The kicker was that the imaging wasn't on the screen for 5 seconds and he commented they no longer use those anchors they use some far more redundant. I should have spent the extra 20K to have him do it the first time, though there is no guarantee, the fix would have survived the VB contact at that time.
Had surgery again on 1-16-24 at the Steadman clinic. Again doing PT vigorously and doing things that I thought would perfectly transcend into archery but the bicep getting to full draw does not feel well and I suspect its because the tendon has been shortened now twice to re-anchor and at 54 its not going to stretch. Same feeling I get in my bottom of quad in a deep squat (had torn quadricep tendon surgery 3.5 years ago).
I will give an update but right now I should probably bring more arrows to SA TAC than I was planning on
