Do you lose muscle after shoulder surgery? Yes. You’re gonna lose some muscle because you’re just not gonna lift with your arm for a couple of months to let whatever we did heal. We start early active motion. People don’t get stiff after surgery. But you still need to wait a couple of months to…
It’s not. I specialize in shoulder replacements. I do 250 a year. Out of all the surgeries that I do on the shoulder, it’s the least painful in the early postoperative phase. During those first couple weeks, most of our patients come in after surgery 10 to 12 days out and feel better than before…
The answer is yes. In 99% of surgeon’s practice, the subscapularis tendon in the front of the shoulder is cut and then reattached. It’s part of your rotator cuff. The biceps tendon is typically released as well. The long head, biceps. We have a newer technique where we don’t have to cut the subscapularis, leave…
Typically, what they want to know most is what recovery will be like. How quickly can I use my arm? Right away. How quickly can I drive? Right away. When am I going to be able to get back to all my activities in life? Roughly three months. What are my restrictions after surgery? Don’t…
It’s identical in terms of pain relief, speed of recovery, quality of life, and overall patient satisfaction scores afterward if you go head-to-head with a total hip. It’s one of the most common procedures done in orthopedics. When you study all procedures that are done in the human body, every surgery across every subspecialty in…
When we’re doing shoulder replacements, if someone’s already had surgery or sometimes you have some shoulder contractures, we release all that, all that scar, all that tightness to get the shoulder moving. Then, you need a scar to form after the surgery to get everything to heal. But the goal is to get the joint…
This is a great question because this is something that probably hasn’t been discussed enough preoperatively. But, you can see people get carpal tunnel or cubital tunnel-type symptoms, I think, because we don’t make people wear slings. We quickly get them out of the slings to get their arm moving. We don’t see that as…
Traditionally, we approach the deltopectoral intervals, so no muscles are cut there. Some surgeons will release a little bit of your pectoralis major tendon or a little bit of a release or not. Sometimes, the main tendon or muscle we cut is the subscapularis, the front of the rotator cuff. We cut that, open it…
The biggest difference, I would tell you, would be loss of motion. Typically, if you’re arthritic, let’s say right is my good side. My left side is my arthritic shoulder. It won’t go all the way up if you’re arthritic. And if you drop your arms and look in the mirror, the good side will…
Absolutely. Millions of people get some bursitis on their shoulders every year. With the natural body’s ability to heal and regenerate itself, it just goes away. Now, if it’s bugging you, you’ve waited a month or two, and it’s not going away, you need to come in and see us so we can make sure…
