dagma1,

Welcome to NeuroTalk. Sorry to hear of your struggles.

There is a lot of good information in the Vitamins sticky at the top. Check out the links at the bottom of the first post.

The important concept to understand is Quiet rest. Not sleep but low stress with moderated physical effort.

I've torn my rotator cuff a few times, the first from getting rear ended when my hand was holding the top of the steering wheel. With the last, I developed shoulder impingement along with it. The first therapists tried to push me for Range of Motion and all that and things seemed to get worse. Finally, a less is more therapist taught me how to take care of my shoulder so I could give it time to heal. It took some time but it did heal up. I spent a year with no improvement except in ROM with the first therapists. Then, when we slowed down, the range of motion tightened up but my shoulder became much more stable. I improved the ROM after the shoulder healed. I don't have all my ROM but I stopped working on it once it got good enough.

My ortho gave me some stats about shoulders regarding surgery. he said that 1/3 get better with surgery, 1/3 stay the same, and 1/3 end up worse.

Please feel free to tell us all about your 'mental' stuff. There are plenty of people here with lots of experience dealing with cognitive and memory issues, etc.

My best to you.