Kimberly's Journey: A Relief from Shoulder Pain (Part 2)
15 Apr 2024 · 1 min
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Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter talks with Kimberly about her partial thickness rotator cuff tear and how she chose biologics therapy instead of surgery to treat it.
Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter talks with Kimberly about her partial thickness rotator cuff tear and how she chose biologics therapy instead of surgery to treat it.
Your tear isn't all the way through your rotator cuff. It's a partial thickness tear. And about 90% of orthopedic surgeons would offer surgery initially for a lot of these.
I went through the MRI and the X rays and I had a confirmation that it was torn. And so I was referred to an orthopedic surgeon. That's when I came to you.
To be clear, your tear isn't all the way through your rotator cuff. It's a partial thickness tear. And about 90% of orthopedic surgeons would offer surgery initially for a lot of these. But we really felt like we could do something with our biologics therapy. And you were very interested in avoiding the downtime after surgery.
I did not want to have surgery if I could avoid it.
Absolutely. We're avoiding it.
My concern was going through all of this, am I going to have to have surgery in the end anyway? So I just wanted it fixed.
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