I have had 3 shoulder surgeries. The Doctor earlier mentioned a year, and he is right on, in my case.
Age, and the individual's particular injury is critical. Not all PT are equal, some will hurt you.
If you try and macho your way to recovery, you are apt to go in for another surgery. As you have found, the shoulder surgery is not for wimps. Give yourself time to heal, and I would not even start pulling on a bow for 6 months, and then at a much reduced weight.
Hunt out and do your due diligence in a PT specialist in Shoulders. Best place to look is with Doctors that specialize in working on College athletes and their PT people.
A teaching hospital, often trains PT associated with their hospital and lets them observe the operation to better understand what is going on with the patients.
I feel as if there are a LOT of Quacks out there working on shoulders, and even more Quack PT.
