In general, yes. If you average out a thousand people that have had their shoulder and their knee replaced, um, at least 70 to 80% of the shoulder replacements will have had a quicker, simpler, less painful recovery with a better overall outcome in terms of how much better their joint feels now. Knee replacements work great, and people are…
Well, pinched nerves within the shoulder joint are very rare. However, you can get them. You can get suprascapular nerve impingement with para labral cysts where you have a torn labrum. That's relatively uncommon. What's way more common is a pinched nerve in your neck radiating down your arm. But often, people think that they have a pinched nerve when…
There's no way to answer that question until you come in and figure out what the injury was and get some imaging to figure out what happened. So much depends on how much pain you're having, the injury, the mechanism, how long you've been hurting, and what you look like right now. What do our X-rays show? Our ultrasound shows…
Typically, about an hour. Our procedure times are quick. Most of the surgeries we do are 30 minutes or less. People say. “How?” I tell them it's volume. If you do something thousands and thousands of times, you get more efficient. Because of the techniques and the technologies we use, the procedures are quick, and we get you back to…
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. You can create an asymptomatic,…
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 you look at our data,…
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