Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter (speaker) explains that many common shoulder, knee, and hip "cleanup" surgeries (e.g., partial rotator cuff procedures for tears that are not full-thickness) are often unnecessary and that orthobiologic treatments can prevent the need for such surgeries. He emphasizes that orthobiologics allow quicker recovery with no downtime, no sling, and no weight-bearing limitations compared with surgery.
In some cases, you'll do a surgery like, say you're going to do a rotator cuff surgery. Well, most of the surgeries done on shoulders are actually done for things that aren't strictly necessarily meaning that you're actually operating on tears that aren't all the way through the tendon. So you're really just kind of cleaning it up. Cleanup surgeries are pretty common in the United States. It happens in the knee, it happens in the hip, it happens in the shoulder. And orthobiologics prevents you from ever having to have that surgery. And that's actually a quicker recovery. I don't have to have any downtime. There's no sling involved. You don't have to limit your weight bearing, that sort of thing.
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