Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair
September 30, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Small rotator cuff impingements are cured with the help of medicines and rest. When a rotator cuff tear doesn’t heal after prolonged non-surgical treatment, surgery is resorted to as the last option. Open rotator cuff repair was the old method of surgery for correcting rotator cuff tears. The latest method of surgery is named as arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.
The old method was very painful and took a lot of time to heal completely. Usually a big cut was made in the shoulder muscle to reach the rotator cuff and then the rotator cuff was inspected and operated. This usually caused a lot of pain during and after surgery. Even after the tear was healed surgery related pain did reappear in patients. The latest arthroscopic rotator cuff repair surgery is relatively painless and effective… Read more
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