The shoulder I dislocated on landing took the better part of a year to get back, and the thing that moved it furthest was the treatment I had almost written off.
Last year I dislocated my shoulder skydiving. The jump itself is in my 1st skydiving injury. What I wish I had ready beforehand is in what I did not have ready when I got hurt.
I am about 97 percent recovered now.
What I did
The shoulder was realigned in hospital.
Back in Singapore, the first thing I did was book physiotherapy. Every session started with a status check, then light massage and exercises to take away. The first few sessions did most of the work. After that the massage and electrotherapy did less and less, and eventually you are on your own with the exercises.
I added weekly massage for the surrounding muscles, which were stiff.
Then acupuncture, which did the least for me of anything I tried. I nearly gave up on Traditional Chinese Medicine at that point. I gave it one more go with Tuina instead.
That was the right call. The physiotherapist had worked the back of the shoulder. During the Tuina session I was sweating bullets while the physician worked the front of it, on a pressure point deep enough that I had not known it was there and it had not been treated. Left alone, according to him, it would have cost me mobility and strength later.
There is a Chinese saying about this: 伤筋动骨一百天. Loosely, an injury to muscle, tendon, nerve, blood vessel or bone needs at least a hundred days.
Two things worth knowing
Travel insurance covered a portion of the medical costs, and I would not travel to jump without it again.
The rest of it is that I am not as young as I was. I cannot walk certain injuries off any more, and the body doing the recovering gets older every day.