Best Way To Know If You Have a Rotator Cuff Tear?

for a few days, it's okay, basically, surgeon preference if you're seeing your surgeon and saying, "Oh, I'll do it open, I'll do it arthroscopically, both are still valid ways." Absolutely yes, done well either way would be a very similar result and you want your surgeon to do what he is good at and what he is comfortable with. Yes, that is very important. Okay, finally, now that you've had the surgery, what am I? What am I looking at to recover? I'm going home. I can go back to work the next day. Yes, the recovery is long, unfortunately.

Alright. I usually say: Hello,

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you had a good coke? Maybe because they may

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that in their heads. Where are you looking at me? you

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some people do fine a week or two later, yes the

rotator

cuff

takes a long time and the limiting step is the healing of the Bohun tendon. I tell people it takes three months to heal. Okay, that's a long time to protect it, usually. I suggest a sling for about six weeks most of the time I say sling except for bathing and physical therapy so sleeping in it yeah I'm not supposed to drive with a sling it's really awesome like a bricklayer or a nurse lifting heavy patients.

Those are the ones that you're going to have significant work time and you're going to have to play on it, yeah you

know

, if you're doing repetitive overhead lifts here, yeah, if you're doing heavier work, then you're looking at, you know , about four to six months until you get back to that, you're doing desk work. and you can do your work in a sling. I would take two weeks off to start and then it varies for everyone. Alright. So, recapping

rotator

cuff

pathology, we know what the rotator cuff is. It is the muscles around the shoulder that help it rotate. some tendonitis, you may have a

tear

which may be a partial

tear

, a full thickness tear, yes this is usually treated with some type of pain reliever, yes some physical therapy, if it doesn't improve we consider some cortisone injections with a little freezing, yeah, hopefully, it works if that works.

It doesn't work, it could come to surgery, yes, if you are going to have surgery, it could be an open procedure or an arthroscopic procedure, both of which are quite long or come later, yes, I'm missing something, no, it's a detention, David de A to Z, that's amazing. we would like to thank dr. Haverstock for joining us this week and if you liked the video, please like and subscribe to our channel and don't worry about the green screen later, we'll top it off with a full or R oh well, We're in Dr. Lucas's basement now I say it myself and remember that you are in charge of your own health C see you next time