Protocols for Rehabilitation

These protocols are a guide to the shoulder rehabilitation. Individual surgeons and therapists will differ.

These are simply proven programmes we have used, based on our experience, training and surgical techniques.

These protocols are not our 'accelerated rehab protocols', which need close therapist supervision and may not be applicable to all practices and patients.

These are some generic shoulder rehabilitation protocols to assist clinicians, as a basis for developing their own protocols for their patients. The protocols are based around a safe and slow progressive recovery. They were originally based on the Reading Shoulder Unit Protocols (where I trained as a Shoulder Fellow) and developed with shoulder & sports therapists over the years (Kathleen Tatlow, Cath Leftley, Julie Walton, Christine Holmes, Doug Jones, Jeff Ross, Tim Uhl, and others)

Info for Patients: Please do not use these protocols for your shoulder rehabilitation off the website. Please use the protocols of your surgeon.

• Shoulder Protocols
• Shoulder Exercise Guide