Well, I know this is semantics, but you actually cannot heal a torn rotator cuff naturally. Once the tendon tears, it’s torn. It’s gone. What you can do is strengthen the other muscles of the shoulder and rebalance the system so that your shoulder no longer has any pain and has full strength in motion….
This is a wonderful question that people should ask more often. It depends on the surgeon. It depends on the surgery. In general, in our practice, our three main surgeries are rotator cuff repair, shoulder replacement, and instability operations. Your shoulders come in and out of the socket. That encompasses 90% of our procedures. When…
What organ can cause right shoulder pain? You can get referred pain from different areas of your body into your right shoulder from your neck. Sometimes people with cardiac issues can get radiating pain into either shoulder. In general, if it hurts to use your shoulder, if you feel pain on the side of the…
The biggest ones I would say, does it impact your sleep at night? The second thing would be, do you have profound weakness in your arm? Do you notice that you’re significantly weak? The third thing would just be pain that stops you from doing what you want to do. If any of those three…
Most patients are surprised to hear that the pain they feel may be on the side of their arm is due to a torn cuff. This is extremely common. People feel pain down the deltoid insertion and mid-humerus up on the side. If you have pain in the front, you can feel pain radiating up…
I’m gonna keep this simple. You shouldn’t do things that cause a high level of pain. In general, our protocols are right after rotator cuff surgery, we allow gentle, active motion like the hand to head, but not higher. We don’t want you to lift your arms. That’s what you won’t want to do right…
This is a question we get a lot from our patients. If you have pain in your shoulder, I still actually encourage everyone to continue to exercise and even do exercises with their shoulder. But I don’t want you to do things that hurt. In general, if you can see your hand, it’s less stress…
Absolutely. But you won’t cause damage to your shoulder by sleeping on it. It may be sore from sleeping awkwardly, but more often than not people have trouble sleeping at night because they’re laying on a shoulder that has chronic wear and tear, whether it’s a rotator cuff or arthritis or a label tear or…
It’s pretty common to get radiating pain from a herniated disc in your neck down through the shoulder. You feel pain in the shoulder, but if it’s purely your neck, it doesn’t hurt to move your shoulder. If you can do whatever you want with that shoulder, lift, move, do anything with your right, it…
Intuitively, you would think, “Oh, it’s tight.” The human shoulder is different. Most of its problems are the source of stress. The system is overly stressed. Why is it stressed? Most of the time, it’s due to rotator cuff pathology or instability. That causes some sliding of the ball and socket, which stretching can make…
