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72-Year-Old Man Struggles with Chronic Shoulder Pain

15 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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A 72-year-old man named Jim recounts several years of severe, activity-limiting shoulder pain that worsens above chest/head level. He reports lack of benefit from injections, physical therapy, and exercises, and says he researched platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections before deciding to see Dr. Schechter, who was highly recommended by others.

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My name is Jim. I'm 72 years old. The last few years, I've had a lot of shoulder problems. Issues that was just constantly pain. My arms were below waist level. I was okay. But then when I started getting above chest level and higher, I had tremendous amount of pain there. I had no strength to be able to lift anything. It seemed as though I have hard time even in the kitchen area getting some down the kitchen cabinet. If it was low, I was okay, but if it was head level or higher, I had a hard time getting something out of the kinship. The pain was just unbearable at times. Injections, physical therapy, numerous other exercises, nothing seems to be helping. It was just kind of frustrating from that standpoint, and I wasn't seeing any kind of results. I heard about these PRP injections. I said, well, let me check this out. There has to be something to this. I researched it on the websites and looking over and it says there may be something to this that maybe could help me. I believe Dr. Schechter is probably one of the most experienced everyone I talked to, they've been all very complimentary of him. I says, well, I bet this person knows what he's doing. I better go check him out.