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Shoulder and elbow problems are a little bit different. You’re not visibly limping when
you have a shoulder or an elbow problem, but it’s a quality of life issue. And night
pain is a huge issue in shoulder problems. People don’t sleep, their personality changes,
they’ve stopped working out, or they’ve stopped doing something they love. So I try
to educate them on why this may be happening and set up a treatment plan for them. Now
the vast majority of people I see, we can get better with conservative management, but
we give them the surgical options also.
We can always improve our conservative management, our surgical technique, our surgical results.
And at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush, we have a tremendous translational research program
where what we’re doing in the bench lab, we can translate to the operating room — to
the patient — but at the same time we’re always clinically following our patients.
So if we find a technique or result that’s better than something else we can always improve.
For me that’s the satisfaction of it, to get somebody back and give them the options
to do what they want to do, not this is the only thing you can do but to get back to do
what they want to do.