Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter compares surgical rotator cuff repair, which takes a year or more to heal, with ultrasound-guided orthobiologic injections that require only a couple weeks of rest. The injections target healing directly and let you return to activities faster, without surgery's risks.
Questions this video answers
November 15, 2024
About an hour
Up to a year to a year-and-a-half
Take it easy for a couple of weeks, then ease back into normal activities
Chapters
If the physical therapy then doesn't necessarily work or you continue to have significant pain, you come back to your orthopedic surgeon's office, maybe you'll see him for another 15 minutes and then he'll recommend.
Say you were going to do a rotator cuff repair on a partial thickness rotator cuff tear. In a lot of patients, the way that that works is, you know, you come to your regular doctor, you have a partial thickness rotator cuff tear, which doesn't necessarily always need surgery. But if it continues to be symptomatic, then oftentimes we'll recommend that the surgery itself takes us about an hour and a to do. Unfortunately, it's very, very inconvenient because oftentimes we have to go in and repair the tear if we weren't able to heal it with other measures. And oftentimes after a rotator cuff repair surgery of this type, you can continue to improve for up to a year, to a year and a half before you reach your point of maximum improvement. Well, with orthobiologics, we skip all of that. We can focus in direct healing to that partial thickness rotator cuff tear using ultrasound guidance with an injection. The vast majority of people who receive orthobiologics treatments, we basically ask them to take it easy for a couple of weeks and then ease back into their more normal activities. We find that this returns patients very, very quickly to their normal activities and particularly their sports, without any of the downtime or the significant risk of an orthopedic surgery.
