You've joined the buzzers club!! So glad to read that it has gone well for you to date and that you are finding RELIEF!!

Regarding PT, your doc will likely prescribe it [either the surgeon or your pain doc] and it will be best of all if the therapy clinic you select has both the gym with its exercise whatnots and stretching/massage tables ALONG with the warm therapy pool in which you would be directed to exercise all for the sake of restoring core strength while keeping those muscles happy. I hope such a place exists in your area.

In the meantime, those walks you mention are just what the doctor prescribed, I imagine!!

Prayin all will be well,
Mark56