Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter explains that rotator cuff tears rarely heal without intervention, unlike skin cuts. Small partial-thickness tears might heal with good blood supply, but most need help. Biologic therapies like stem cells show promise for partial-thickness tears, though research is still limited.
Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter
December 24, 2023
So the question is whether a rotator cuff tear heals itself like a cut. In some cases, if you have a traumatic tear that is only part of the way through the tendon, there theoretically could be a way that it could heal itself like a cut if you have enough blood supply to the area. Biologics therapies like stem cell may offer some benefit here, although there's not a whole lot of research on that. Now, we do treat rotator cuff tears, especially partial thickness rotator cuff tears, with orthobiologics very successfully. But no, in most cases, rotator cuff tears will not heal themselves like a cut.
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