Blog - Dr. Kevin Kruse

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  • Can You Move Your Shoulder After Shoulder Replacement?

    A common question is, can you move your shoulder after shoulder replacement surgery? Honestly, it depends on which surgeon you choose. Many surgeons will ask you to stand in a sling for six weeks and do little motion. We are not that way. With our techniques, our rehab techniques, and the fact that we're high-volume, we know what shoulder replacements…

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  • What Is The Most Painful Shoulder Surgery?

    A common question is, what is the most painful shoulder surgery? In general, the answer is rotator cuff repair. Things have changed. In our practice, we use multimodal pain approaches and rehab techniques. We use surgical techniques, and wand we have mitigated that massively. Rotator cuff surgery gets a bad rap. But if done in modern fashion by someone with…

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  • How Long Is Bed Rest After Shoulder Surgery?

    A common question you can ask is how long bed rest is after shoulder surgery, and the answer is zero. Zero bed rest. There are still physical laborers today, but most of our patients are knowledge workers. They work at desks and in offices, so they don't require a lot of manual work with their shoulders. Let's say you fall…

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  • What Happens To The Rotator Cuff After Reverse Shoulder Replacement?

    People often ask what happens to the rotator cuff muscles after reverse shoulder replacement. The answer is nothing. People often get reverse shoulders because they're arthritic and maybe have a large rotator cuff tear that can't be fixed. It just depends on the indications. But we don't do anything to the rotator cuff muscles. The reverse shoulder, because of its…

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  • What Is A Reverse Shoulder?

    A common question people ask about shoulder surgeries is: What is a reverse shoulder? So, a reverse shoulder is the flip of the human shoulder. There's a ball and a socket on one side. Think about a golf ball sitting on a tee, and the reverse is flipped. We put a metal ball where the socket was and then a…

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  • Which Surgery Is Worse, Knee or Shoulder?

    Which surgery is worse, the knee or the shoulder? It depends on what surgery you're having.  They're all great because we're solving problems there. We're fixing people that have severe pain. Our patients' outcomes are excellent, and they are very happy. That's why we have a busy practice.  But it depends on what you're doing. It depends on what the surgery…

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