Prayers and best wishes for a quick and complete recovery.
Way to keep your chin up when the punches keep coming kid!
You're very fortunate that the surgery and scope was done immediately after the injury. I'm sure the Dr. told you the longer you wait to fix an elbow injury the worse off your prognosis is...
The first Ortho Dr. I had was as worthless as a 2 legged horse....he was incompetent, didn't or couldn't do an elbow scope and told me that there was nothing that could be done... he didn't want to refer me out. And he also told me "I had to tough it out"...
It was 6 years from the time I injured my elbow, until my first scope...5 years later the technology improved again and I had the second scope. The damage is done, but the pain is gone. You are so fortunate to have had the guts and the people around you wanting and willing to do the surgery immediately...
When it's all said and done you'll have a myriad of different colored Ortho bands to hang on your wall like track ribbons...
And a full set of dumbbells to use for years to come...
Good luck!
You'll end up doing rehab on your own with the Ortho bands and dumbbells you'll end up buying.
I used heavier dumbbells for rehab exercises and to try to get range of motion back. I'd hold my arm over the edge of a chair with a 20-30 lb dumbbell to try to stretch the elbow back out...
You probably will not have to do that since you caught it so early.
I did alot of the standard tricep exercises they recommended. But for the situation i was in, where I had lost 45-50 degrees of motion in my right elbow, I did some unorthodox exercises that your therapist might frown upon.
I got nearly 10 degrees of range of motion back by doing these 2 exercises...
I'd hold onto 10-15 pounds of weight and hang my arm over the edge of a chair for up to 30 minutes. I'd periodically bounce the weight to try to stretch the elbow out.
I'd also do the same exercises with 25-30 dumbbells for 5-10 minutes. It was painful, but it worked.
You're much better off than I was since you caught it so early.
I don't think you'll have as much of a problem as I did.
With the elbow, you ABSOLUTELY have to do the rehab regiment that they prescribe. Otherwise you won't get the range of motion back.
Good luck!