Raising The Roof In Shoulder Surgery

Climbing on a roof because the first protective move a person makes when falling is outstretching their arm to break the fall the shoulder joint receives the majority of the impact force when landing and is easily injured.

Raising the roof in shoulder surgery. This surgery is aimed at repairing the damaged capsule and ligaments directly. Your shoulder surgeon will explain the procedure to you and address any concerns you may have. In this surgery the complete humeral head and glenoid or the ball and socket joint is replaced. Shoulder arthroscopy is often performed for treatment of rotator cuff tears labral tears and shoulder bursitis arthroscopic procedures are also sometimes used for the treatment of early shoulder arthritis.

Don t let it get as damaged as i did. This procedure which is also known as total shoulder arthroplasty is used as a treatment method for stiff joints that trigger severe pain even with slight flexing of the shoulder. The shoulder blade or scapula acromion. Impingement syndrome can also be described as rotator cuff tendonitis and bursitis.

The rotator cuff muscles originate on the scapula and surround the socket and humeral head under this acromial roof. Shoulder arthroscopy is a surgical procedure often performed for minimally invasive treatment of a number of different conditions. I felt so much better after surgery it gave me my life back ken said. In the case of ken roof he realized after surgery that he had waited far too long to address the pain.

This procedure can be done arthroscopically as an outpatient. The arthroscopic procedure used to correct impingement is known as a subacromial decompression. Decompression the goal of surgery is to increase the space between the acromion and the rotator cuff tendons. It is well known that rotator cuff surgery is a major operation where the rotator cuff tendons figure 1 are sewn back to the upper arm bone humerus.

The surgery may first remove any bone spurs that may have developed under the acromion that are rubbing on the rotator cuff tendons and the bursa. The most common causes of pain after rotator cuff surgery are 1 that the shoulder is still recovering from the surgery itself and 2 the shoulder has gotten stiff due to lack of movement. While shoulder arthroscopy is considered a very safe. One of the obstacles to surgery of the shoulder unlike the knee is that the shoulder is surrounded by a bony and muscular envelope.

The surgery is performed with a miniature lighted telescope and small instruments introduced into the shoulder joint through hollow cannulas. The aim of the surgery is to increase the space between the rotator cuff and the top of the shoulder known as the acromion. My advice to others is don t wait as long as i did.