Hi Rip,

My father had shoulder replacement surgery due to osteoarthritis of the AC & Glenohumeral Joint and bony overgrowths throughout the shoulder joint and muscles. He had surgery on 29th October 2020. We were told that the surgery went well by the surgeon and an independent orthopedics specialist said that the x-ray images of the shoulder look very well. The issue comes from the fact that the hospital started his rehab 14th December, even though his surgeon ordered rehab 2 weeks after surgery. I tried to do some rehab with him but both me and him were very reserved about moving his arm in a large range of motion since he felt alot of pain even slightly moving his arm.
On 28th December his range of motion was as follows:
Flexion 60
Extension 10
Abduction 55
Adduction 0
External Rotation 0
Internal rotation 20

Since then the situation has not improved, and he still has pain in his shoulder at the ends of range of motion as well as a feeling of stiffness in the entire joint. Today he saw the specialist he consulted before and was told he probably has some kind of adhesions created because his rehab started too late and that now it will be very difficult to get his flexion and abduction to even 90 degrees.
We are from Croatia and he does not understand english so I tried my best to show him and translate your video on shoulder rehab and incorporate that ino his rehab at home but he is very stubborn an at that moment claimed that his physiotherapist told him not to do that because it is ''too agressive, is not in the program, and will fuck up his prosthetic'' or something similar to that.
He was not a lifter ever, worked very physical jobs his entire life.
Do you have any experience or advice that could help him out.