This will vary depending on what surgeon does your surgery and what they tell you. In my practice, the way we treat patients is different. We are much more accelerated than 99% of surgeons. For us, after two weeks, the sling is completely optional. You can move your arm around. I'm okay with early active motion, especially on small to…
When we're doing shoulder surgery and reattaching muscles slash tendons, muscles become tendons. We're reattaching tendons in surgery back down to bones that are torn. Sometimes, we have to release tendons and reattach them to do shoulder replacements. It typically takes about three months for them to heal hard into bone before we feel comfortable saying, go start stressing this…
The answer is yes. We make little poke holes in the shoulder. There are 3 or 4 little pokes, and then there is one stitch to close the poke hole. You can come into the office in ten days and take those out. It's pretty quick. I have a lot of patients who fly in to see us and have…
Typically, it’s the third or fourth day or maybe second to fourth. I do shoulder surgery exclusively. Patients have a nerve block, so they don't feel anything for the first 1 to 2 nights. When the nerve block wears off, you say, “Oh, now I feel I can feel what was done.” So typically, that second to fourth night is…
This is a good question because it's kind of nuanced. In many shoulder replacements, we use the rotator cuff and four tendons. But the one in the front is called the subscapularis. Think of that as a tendon. That's the door to the shoulder. But we must open the door, insert the shoulder replacement, and close it. When we close…
I'm happy to tell you that contemporary shoulder replacements last way longer than ten years. The older style implants that were put in 15 to 20 years ago, yes, because of the plastic used, the design of the implants, and a myriad of other factors. There was around a ten-year survival. But with the newer implants, designs, techniques, and technologies,…
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