When we’re doing shoulder replacements, if someone’s already had surgery or sometimes you have some shoulder contractures, we release all that, all that scar, all that tightness to get the shoulder moving. Then, you need a scar to form after the surgery to get everything to heal. But the goal is to get the joint…
This is a great question because this is something that probably hasn’t been discussed enough preoperatively. But, you can see people get carpal tunnel or cubital tunnel-type symptoms, I think, because we don’t make people wear slings. We quickly get them out of the slings to get their arm moving. We don’t see that as…
Traditionally, we approach the deltopectoral intervals, so no muscles are cut there. Some surgeons will release a little bit of your pectoralis major tendon or a little bit of a release or not. Sometimes, the main tendon or muscle we cut is the subscapularis, the front of the rotator cuff. We cut that, open it…
The biggest difference, I would tell you, would be loss of motion. Typically, if you’re arthritic, let’s say right is my good side. My left side is my arthritic shoulder. It won’t go all the way up if you’re arthritic. And if you drop your arms and look in the mirror, the good side will…
Absolutely. Millions of people get some bursitis on their shoulders every year. With the natural body’s ability to heal and regenerate itself, it just goes away. Now, if it’s bugging you, you’ve waited a month or two, and it’s not going away, you need to come in and see us so we can make sure…
Symptoms people typically report are just aching and pain anywhere in the front, side, down the arm and the back. They report some crepitus or some popping and clicking in the shoulder. People report that when they lift overhead, go behind their backs, or reach out to the side. They have pain in their shoulder….
It could be a myriad of reasons. Typically, as we sleep at night and rest, our bodies are trying to heal and regenerate themselves as we wake up. Our mind all of a sudden notices very clearly what’s going on in our body. As we get moving through the day, a lot of the aches…
You almost can’t unless you have some sort of imaging. There are millions of people walking around that have full-thickness rotator cuff tears that are completely asymptomatic. They have a full-thickness cuff tear full torn, but they don’t have any pain because their shoulder has bounced, compensated, and coped. Some people have tendonitis with no…
As long as you need to. Ice is wonderful. We recommend icing your shoulder down 4 to 5 times a day right after the operation because it’s a pain control measure. We’re trying to mitigate the pain you feel after this operation as much as possible without using narcotics that have a lot of side…
Two weeks after rotator cuff surgery. The portal sites we do, these arthroscopically are healed. You’ll have some bruising down your arm. That’s typical. Some have more than others. It’s normal. Don’t worry about it. You’re kind of through the rough patch. The hardest part of rotator cuff surgery is the first week or two….
