I hope you recover well, strengthening your muscles & tendons around the joint is very important for recovery.

I used to be a surgical tech & assisted many of these repairs. Beware being sold on surgical revisions & more orthopedic surgery in general. They all have huge profit incentive to perform surgeries & there are many many risks they are not legally obligated to tell you about.

The leading causes of opiate addiction is repetitive exposure to prescriptions provided by the medical system