What's worse, shoulder replacement or rotator cuff surgery? I don't like to think of it as being worse. I'm a surgeon, so maybe I'm biased, but they differ. They're both excellent surgeries that have excellent outcomes. In our practice, we specialize in shoulders and track everyone, a 95% success rate with each, but they're different. With a rotator cuff repair,…
A common thing people think about with surgeries: what are some of the things I wish I had known before surgery? I can tell you with many of the procedures we do, especially shoulder replacements, where someone has had arthritis for many years and has been dealing with this nagging pain in their shoulder, and they get it replaced. They…
A common question people ask is can a brace help with shoulder instability? Not really, honestly. The one situation is like, let's say you’ve got a football player and they've dislocated their shoulder and they're just trying to get through the season. When a football player dislocates their shoulder and they want to go back to contact sports, we recommend…
How many dislocations of the shoulder can you tolerate before you have surgery? It depends on whether you've had one dislocation, your activity level, or where you're in life. Sometimes, that's too many for a young contact athlete. We almost always tell them, “If you don't get this fixed, there's a 99% chance it will continue to bother you.” You…
A common question people ask is, can you lift when you have shoulder instability? The answer is yes, but often you need to modify it. You need to modify your lifting. It doesn't typically exacerbate shoulder instability as long as you can see your hand. But every shoulder instability pattern is unique, and you need to figure out with your…
This is a good question. People ask what exercises you should avoid when you have shoulder instability. First off, keep it simple. Don't do stuff that hurts. If it hurts, don't do it. In general, if you can't see your hand, right? Like right there, I can see my hand. And then I'm like pressing in the scapular plane, everything's…
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