How PRP Helped Me Avoid Shoulder Surgery #shorts #shouldersurgery

Name: How PRP Helped Me Avoid Shoulder Surgery #shorts #shouldersurgery
Uploaded: 2025-12-12T22:02:09+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A patient with a 70% subscapularis rotator cuff tear from 2011 got an ultrasound-guided PRP injection instead of surgery. Over a decade later, the tear…

12 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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A patient with a 70% subscapularis rotator cuff tear from 2011 got an ultrasound-guided PRP injection instead of surgery. Over a decade later, the tear healed completely with no complications.

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70%

2011

An in-office, ultrasound-guided platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection

Over a decade with zero problems (complete healing reported)

Open shoulder surgery to remove the biceps tendon and repair the tendon

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I was the first patient we treated with regenerative medicine. I had torn my rotator cuff subscapularis 70% in 2011, and I was scheduled for a surgery where they would open my shoulder up, take my biceps tendon and repair the tendon. And I had read about certain celebrities and athletes that were using prp, platelet rich plasma. Kind of a new thing at the time. So I bought the equipment. We had our technologists learn how to use the ultrasound on the shoulder. One of my orthopedic friends came to the office, drew my blood, got this PRP out, injected my rotator cuff. It's been over a decade, zero problems. This completely healed. This was a 70% tear with just a shot of platelet rich plasma.