So after a few months off and then designing my own American football style shoulder pad I was able to play again but, it was not just my shoulder which was suffering.
After a few months of playing I seemed to be on the Physio bed ALOT! But not only for my sore shoulder but for a number of other body parts surrounding the shoulder. I was constantly having a sore upper back, muscle knots where the main issue. My Physio Nick Coleman would be constantly finding new knots popping up all over my back, and they were not fun having them rubbed out. Now, although these knots were painful it was the shooting pain I was getting in my neck. Nick believed that it was due to issues with my nerves running through my shoulder into my neck but who knows, all I know is it was painful. Turning my head would cause shooting pains all through my neck and into my head.
A winged scapula was also forming on my right side, this was causing some considerable instability on my right side. 
This meant that Nick was constantly on me about doing my exercises. Which was actually a huge help in terms of developing my muscles around the damaged AC joint such as the rotator cuff.
My lower back also suffered, at the time we did not associate the lower back problem with the shoulder injury but after a second issue with my back earlier this year and a visit to the chiropractor the two were linked.
The fact that my right shoulder was causing me to carry myself in an awkward position was causing my hips to sit out of alignment and this was causing me lower back issues.
Anyway, from what you have read you can start to understand how many issues that this shoulder injury was causing. The injury which was only supposed to give me an aesthetical issue according to the NHS specialist.
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