Rotator Cuff Tear Research JBJS – the top journal for Orthopaedic Surgeons – publishes a great blog, Orthobuzz, and it looks at a compendium of research; it recently put together a great snipped on active research on patients that have a rotator cuff tear. It pulls together useful snippets for surgeons to be able to […]

I was invited by IRG Physical Therapy to their ESPN Sports Injury Update to discuss various shoulder sports medicine injuries commonly encountered at KOMO ESPN. I had time to do a few updates on impingement syndrome of the shoulder, distal biceps injuries (biceps ruptures), as well as biceps tendonitis around the shoulder. It is always […]

There is an excellent article on a great blog, OrthoBuzz, about shoulder tendonitis and its causes. Feel free to read more here.

So any patient that has seen me has gotten my standard frozen shoulder talk: there is a capsular ballon between your muscles and your bones that supports the ball and socket type joint. In frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis (which if you take about the name adhesive = sticky, capsule = shoulder capsule, […]

What is Arthroscopy? Arthroscopy is a type of a surgical procedure where a small camera, the size of a pencil, is placed into a joint. The camera relays the image to a monitor allowing the surgeon to see in greater detail than any study possible the anatomy within the joint. This allows the surgeon to […]

More so than learning techniques from the best surgeons in the worldthat are seen as challenging or nearly impossible for average American shoulder surgeons, one of the greatest parts of my adventure in training that I will never take for granted are the international connections I was able to make with the next crop of […]

I know it’s been a bit since I posted. That is partially a consequence of my practice becoming overwhelming busy! However, I now have more help, and am making it my personal goal to show a lot of the interesting and unique cases that come across my clinic days. The following is an interesting patient […]

Rotator cuff tears often require repair, and when the surgery for rotator cuff occurs, often the shoulder surgeons and the patient have had a discussion prior regarding repairability of the tear, whether or not the tear is going to heal, whether or not the muscle health (so called fatty atrophy or degradation – or in […]

Rotator cuff tendons are not always reparable, when they are they called irreparable rotator cuff tears. This can be the case with either chronic tears or massively retracted tears. A chronic tear is most commonly defined as a tear that is older than six months. Massively retracted tears are usually tears that are retracted greater […]

If you’re dealing with chronic pain or pain from sudden trauma – be it in your shoulder, elbow, neck, back, or lower body – the question many fixate on is this: do I need surgery? Despite technological advancements in orthopedic surgery that make it safer and minimally invasive (such as arthroscopic surgery that uses a […]