PT is such a help. I"m hoping I can get away with no surgery on my shoulder. I've been able to put it off for 12 years, but if it isn't hurting I get lazy about doing the "pulling" exercises with the band attached to the wall. Also get lazy about using frozen peas to ice it after exercise. The PT has kept my hips and pelvis in alignment for years, as well. Reason I don't want surgery on shoulder is this: last surgery on L. shoulder (to remove prongs or whatever they are called) was successful, but bad PT following surgery pulled soft tissue in left hip, and I was in hospital and in nursing home two weeks, and then on a waker, and the pulled tissue has always been weak--thus the need for constant exercise (nightly) and PT. And I think I'd have to go to CA to trust anesthesia, as well. To Scripps. Costs too much although I would enjoy the trip.