Shoulder Conditions
Shoulder conditions encompass a range of injuries and ailments affecting the shoulder joint, muscles, and tendons. These conditions can include rotator cuff injuries, shoulder impingement, dislocations, and arthritis, often resulting in pain, limited mobility, and decreased quality of life.
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Orthopedic surgeons have taught us that our bodies are just machines, like your car engine, and that when a part breaks down, it needs to be replaced. So they can’t conceptualize how a severely arthritic shoulder joint with no cartilage and huge bone spurs could be treated without replacing the shoulder. However, that’s not what…read more
Shoulder Popping With No Pain: Good News or Bad News?
On this page: The shoulder and its ligaments Is shoulder popping with no pain good or bad? What are the treatment options? So you have shoulder popping with no pain. That’s something to be ignored, right? It certainly seems harmless enough—after all, there’s no pain, just that annoying popping when you move your shoulder this…read more Rotator Cuff Surgery Results: Only 1/2 of Athletes Return to Play!
Throwing and other athletes tear their rotator cuff all the time, and you would expect that modern orthopedic surgery would have a great answer for these highly active patients. However, a recent study shows rather poor rotator cuff surgery results with professional and competitive athletes. In fact, less than half returned to the same level…read more A Shoulder Stem Cell Procedure 6 Year Follow-up
One of the benefits of being the first physician in the U.S. to use stem cell injections to help orthopedic patients is that every once in a while, an old patient will come back. While we track everyone in a registry, it’s not the same as a patient sitting in front of you telling you…read more Shoulder Replacement Recovery: Rotator Cuff Damage the Unwelcome Surprise
Way back when, at the turn of the century, the concept of the free lunch was introduced. It was offered by pubs owned by beer companies as a way to entice workers to buy more beer over their lunch hour. It included lots of salty items that went well with beer, prompting the proverbial retort…read more Decreasing Shoulder Instability Recovery Time with Stress Ultrasound
Shoulder instability recovery time is a big deal because procedures to stabilize the shoulder typically cause major life disruption. What if there was a better way? What if by accurately measuring the amount of instability using ultrasound and then using your own platelets or stem cells we were able to help stabilize the shoulder without…read more Cut Your Shoulder Dislocation Surgery Recovery Time
One way to cut your shoulder dislocation surgery recovery time is to skip the surgery and opt for advanced interventional orthopedics instead. That’s what Penn State college lacrosse player Matt Florence did. Facing huge surgery with massive loss of playing time, he ditched the 1990s approach to his shoulder problems and opted for new technology from…read more Shoulder Surgery Side Effects: Common Procedure Is Bad News
Old shoulder surgery habits die hard, despite the side effects. This past week I posted the results of a study showing that adding in an acromioplasty surgery to a rotator cuff tear doesn’t help patients. One surgeon who loves the procedure protested that removing the stabilizing ligaments of this part of the shoulder is without…read more 
