This is what I have heard. Surgery is 100 percent cosmetic--there is no way to repair or replace the severed ligaments, that is permanent damage. "Surgery" is really just trimming to protruding top of the bone so it doesn't stick up.

I did mine back in the 1990s and have never regretted not getting it "operated on." if there had been an operation which would have repaired the damage, I would have gone for it no matter the cost. Bit cosmetic surgery is rolling the dice with your health and live with how much possible prize? Pretty much zero, in this case. Unless you are a swimsuit model or something ....

I think it was Machka who said she wished she had never stopped physical therapy ....I say the same. Once I healed I got right back on the high-activity lifestyle and I was fine ... until I stopped when everything went wrong. Separated shoulder or not ... my regret is that I stopped working out fro a few years, not that I didn't get some surgery which wouldn't have actually improved my health anyway.

Not surprising the medical community wants you to buy more of their products .... but also, I don't think i have ever heard of anyone with a full separation who didn't fully recover ... but then, almost everyone I have spoken to returned to an athletic lifestyle afterwards.