Get post-op imaging after rotator cuff repair to track healing, especially if you're using peptides. About 25-30% of repairs fail, and systematic imaging gives you feedback on what's working and helps the orthopedic community build evidence on peptide dosing.
My rule number 5 is post-operative imaging. It's just the right thing to do for yourself and for every patient who comes after you. There is a lack of clinical studies on peptides in orthopedics in general, and especially in the shoulder world. I think it's a responsible thing for anybody to do this who's considering the use of peptides to get imaging because that helps everyone learn from this and find out if we really have situations where it helps or find situations where maybe less is needed or more is needed, etc. And if we all do this, it's all going to get better and benefit everyone. Also, I think it's beneficial to just know if your rotator cuff healed. The reality is that about 25 to 30% of rotator cuff tears do not heal after a repair. So getting that imaging, I think, is very, very valuable for the individual. That's something that I really encourage my patients to do. They're doing peptides to get imaging so that they can really get feedback on this. And that may also relate to perhaps another scenario, like for instance, they choose to have another orthopedic procedure and they want to know, did this protocol work for me?
