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Oh yeah if you're doing activities with a high risk of re-injury that's a different matter. I just lift weights and do yoga. Climbing you're often loading your shoulder in the weakest position possible for the labrum (that damned L-shape), and soccer you never know how you'll fall. But, for people reading, surgery is definitely not medically necessary just because the guidelines almost always say so (because they care about maximizing the outcomes doctors are rightfully sworn to maximize, whereas you also have to decide about things like the recovery time's impact on your life, playing the sports you love, your guess that surgery methods will improve in the future, etc.). My advice is the same in either case: get the best physio you can find, follow his recommendations religiously, and take up a practice afterwards that will specifically work on joint health. Yoga is great, Pilates is better as a workout in many ways but harder to do as regularly, supplement with face pulls every time you're in the gym. In the case of surgery, find a surgeon who's done it a million times, it's a routine surgery. Someone who works with athletes if you can, not someone who only does grandmas.
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