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Well it sounds like you have heard lots of good advise and have made the right choice to get it taken care of. Good luck.
Quite frankly I wasn't very comfortable with the Dr. theyassigned me, I believe his diagnosis is correct but he simply treated me like a # and wasn't very interested in my hobbies and how surgery might affect them. I had already decided if I get this done it was going to be with someone I felt comfortable with and took the time to explain the possible short and long term affects.
Good for you in getting it fixed.
Here is what you can look forward to, I had an injury that was pretty much identical to yours, and caused the same way in the gym.
I had the surgery.
It will take a good long time to heal.
The pain from the surgery can be described as like being hit in the shoulder with a Louisville slugger bat by a large man.
In order to repair a tear, most times they have to drill holes in the bone to suture the torn tendon in. The bone bleeds and when it heals that holds it in place.
After being immobilized to heal your shoulder could seize up and become frozen or partially frozen, mine did.
The surgeon who did my shoulder repair cut my deltoid muscle horizontally across the grain to get access to the repair area.
What he should have done is cut with the length of the muscle and separated the fibres to get where he needed to go.
As a result, I have a scar depression in that muscle and a permanent weakness there that will never go away.
No amount of physical therapy or workouts will ever change that.
The shoulder is now pain free, but still has a limited range of motion, and my days in the gym are basically over when it comes to shoulder chest and upper body work.
My other shoulder is showing signs of trouble now, probably from my years as a welder-tradesman.
Good luck, I hope you do better than me.
Larry
Good luck with the surgery Fali, and good luck with the "wall walks" if you don't know what that is, you will soon learn !