[Vickie]

Sounds to me like you know a lot. I know certain people would criticize you for waiting so long to have your shoulder looked at. I think you were very intuitive with the exception of finding the right movements to help you correct the problem. Either way you are fortunate to only have manageable pain. Type III actually falls into a lesser and more advance diagnosis so I am making a huge assumption that the surgeon identified the lesser evil expects you to manage your condition.

Now to the golf swing. If you are on this site you are already creating the best motions possible. However if your quippy, and likable, joke of looking like Quasimoto is TRUE, you can't possibly not manifest shoulder and potentially hip problems. If you choose to remail out of positive posture you will surely pay a price, not the least of which is changing your golf swing every 'so' often to compensate for a structural system that is slowly degenerating and collapsing on you. Unfortunately we think this is normal or aging and in many golf circles it is considered for the sport. Oh contrare, Mon Ami. Your condition will require much more adaptive monitoring but could be significantly controlled if you are willing to do the work. Clinical studies have indicated that recovery at this level is faster and often more predictable without surgery. Probably depends on the surgeon you talk to.

Concurrent with your curiosity about the shoulder specific exercises (which are necessary and many) I would look at general fitness for your entire frame. Create a positive alignment and you may just find that your shoulder corrects on it's own. After so much time you could have some permanent but not necessarily unmanageable degeneration of the joint which can often be interrupted and retrained to allow you full function. Adhesion and fusion within the joint is often a function of many other lifestyle contributions like nutrition and daily activity.

Now to your question: two of the primary muscles for you to look at are the anterior deltoid (from the clavical) and the trapezious (from the acromium). Please DO NOT do over the head exercises for the conditioning and potentiall forseaable future. My problem in recommending exercises is that I believe those choices are directly effected by the condition of the rest of your physiology. I never just look at a joint as an isolated case. If you have inappropriate posture and we start strengthening your capacity to function 'to' that misalignment, then you are stuck.

Any chance you can get a picture of yourself from the front and one from the side and pm it to me? It would tell me where to start. I went thru most of physical therapy school and literally found it didn't work with my philosophy of systemic condition. I am sure it is frustrating for you now (it is why I do in home training) but would really put us ahead of the game. Only after I found out how I could change the tensions around the problem would I begin to think about my golf swing. I am sure you are making changes that don't hurt you without any input. You sort of have to decide if you want to just change your game or you want to rehabilitate this injury before you create a protocol.

Let me know and I will figure out a way around it if posting pictures is not in your technilogical basket. Do you notice I don't have pictures and have been promising them for months?

Thanks for the extra info and the patience. I am sure we will get a lot of input here. My philosophy is quite different from most medical protocols. You will be able to weigh them all together and find your best solution. I have faith.

Vickie