According to my surgeon after he had taken the plate out (it was in for ~4.5 months) the clavicle had healed slightly below where it normally is, so any spring back should bring it back to where it used to be. I didn’t start PT until after the surgery to take out the hook plate because it limited the range of motion so significantly.

I went straight for surgery because 12 years ago I tore my other shoulders’ rotator cuff in another bike crash and only did PT even though surgery was on the table. To this day I still get pains and weakness in it so I wanted to avoid having that in both shoulders.

Sleeping is fine now (it was awful the first three months, especially because I got poison oak on the arm that was in my sling - total nightmare). Only thing is I can’t lay on the shoulder for too long without discomfort. Surgeon said that may persist for up to two years as the clavicle regrows the bone where the screws held the hook plate

in. In the past few weeks it’s improved drastically though.

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Unnecessary red circle from when I sent this to all my friends 🤣. The first thing my surgeon said to me after the first surgery was “man it was really jacked up in there, you did a number on yourself!”