Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

A Veteran's Journey from Pain to Peak of Wellness Part 6

10 Aug 2024 · 0 min

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Transcript excerpt from a conversation between Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter and a patient (Speaker A) about recovery after shoulder arthroscopy and post-procedure downtime. The clinician references standard restrictions after shoulder scope (sling 6–8 weeks, lifting limit ≈ £10 for three months) and contrasts this with the patient’s experience after orthobiologic interventions (PRP), noting rapid advancement in physical therapy once out of the sling.

It's easy to say, well, that hurts a little bit, or whatever I pushed.
We know what kind of downtime we have after a shoulder scope. We're in a sling for six to eight weeks. We can't lift more than £10 for three months. For you, after the interventions like the procedure that we did, the prp, what was your downtime after that as compared?
Biggest downtime is the sling. I mean, it's a nuisance. Once I was able to get rid of the sling, I was in therapy three days a week with physical therapy, and it's easy to say, well, that hurts a little bit, or whatever I pushed. I was constantly telling the therapist, I'm beyond that. You need to move me up. I need to do more. They were all shocked in the fact that how fastly I was advancing.
And for us, that's really important, a part of what we can do with orthobiologics and the additional treatments that we do here at Pinnacle. It helps not just patients who never had an operation, but patients who did have an operation to do a lot better, faster.