Shoulder Surgery – Frequently Asked Questions
What are the post-operative rehab programs that patients go through after surgery? There’s no one recovery time or post-operative regimen for every procedure. Every shoulder surgery we do has a different rehabilitation program and healing time, and there are different...What’s New In Shoulder Surgery?
The first is a type of anchor. We use anchors to repair tears in the shoulder. For years, the anchors had either a plastic screw or a metal screw attached to the suture. The first anchor that was invented was metal screw, and then with advances in materials they...What Is The Typical Outcome of Shoulder Surgery? How Successful Is It?
For every surgery we consider on a patient, we like to give some percentages on how we think the patient will do. We base that on the medical literature or the data. If we’re looking at a patient with a small rotator cuff tear, we know that they’re probably going to...