A lot of patients come to consult different doctors because of the shoulder aches. In order to help them the right diagnosis should be known. After degenerative or traumatic lesions, if it‘s done in a timely matter, surgical treatment is very affective. But for further progress a big role is being plaid by physical therapy. It helps the patients to restore lost function of the shoulder. After analysing some literature, I noticed that insufficient attention is being spared to the role of physical therapy in the early post surgical period, so I decided to gert a deeper view of this topic. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of physical therapy in the early period after the surgery of the rotator cuff. The goals of the study: 1. to evaluate the effectiveness of physical therapy on the subjective criteria of a shoulder in the early period after the surgery; 2. to estimate the change of the amplitude in the shoulder’s muscle and changes of shoulder retraction force using physical therapy in the early period after the surgery. Organization and methods of the study. 36 patients who were after the rotator cuff split surgery underwent examination. Physical therapy was used at rehabilitation department of Kaunas Red Cross Hospital in 2004-2005. The evaluation of results was based on the Constant scale. The results were evaluated six and eight weeks after the surgery. The patients were grouped into two groups. Each group consisted of ten men and eight women age 54... [to full text]