I appreciate the response and apologise, I thought I had posted initially a lot earlier - this type of pain makes it feel like the problem happened months ago!

there's no chance of doing any weight-bearing / resistance exercise, the fact I can't move my arm above shoulder height tells me that! Just feels so weak. The winged scapula does seem to be occurring from the lack of other muscle doing their job - the physio seems to think it isn't perfect in the good shoulder anyway.

I don't mind missing weights sessions at all, its the swimming I want to get back to but not likely for some weeks going off how the healing response is, then its having that confidence that it won't suddenly occur again. This just did seem to come on abruptly without any warning signs and that's what really bugs me.

All I suppose I can do is to keep mobilised as often as possible to relieve the pain. I'm just keen on speeding up the healing process!

thanks

Tony.