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>> So shoulder injuries are very common in the population.
Twenty-five percent of people at some point
in time is statistically likely to have a shoulder injury.
This can range from anything from a small minor problem to a rotator cuff injury and more
and more eventually to the development of arthritis and the need for bigger surgery
for shoulder replacements and things like that.
So one of the more common injuries we see in the shoulder is rotator cuff tears,
rotator cuff injuries, and the treatment for this has really undergone a big change
over the course of the last 5 to 10 years.
Part of that has been because we're better at diagnosing it with MRIs,
we're better at treating it now with new advanced procedures and in particular,
the one that really has gotten more popular over the last 5 to 10 years
and gotten a lot more effective is shoulder arthroscopy, minimally invasive shoulder surgery
that allows us to get into the shoulder without causing too much outside damage getting in
and doing our work fixing the problem and getting out again.
Well, most orthopedic surgeons have some experience in shoulder but if you--
if you have a problem in the shoulder, it's probably best that you seek someone
who is a shoulder-trained or has a lot of shoulder experience as what they do the majority
of their time in their orthopedic practice.
Typically, that's a sports medicine doctor.
They do more of the sports medicine-trained orthopedic surgeon who does more
of the arthroscopic types procedures.
But it depend-- depending on what you have, you may need a shoulder replacement type of surgery.
>> Shoulder arthroplasty is shoulder replacement.
So-- and in fact, just like you can do a total shoul-- a total knee or a total hip replacement,
you can also to do a total shoulder replacement.
And over the course of the last 10 years, what we've seen is not only the use
of better materials in shoulder replacement that allow longer life--
longer lifespan of the-- of the replacement.
But in addition, you've seen newer technologies.
So for example, you can have a bone sparing procedure where you--
if you're younger and you may need this 20--
another replacement 20 or 30 years down the line,
you preserve the bone stock, so that makes revision easier.
In addition, there-- there's been specialized treatments for young,
active patients in their '40s that allow them to get back to doing what they were doing
where they-- where a shoulder replacement might not have been available
to them 10 to 15 years ago.
>> When you're talking about a more major surgery, you're--
you're needing to have the specialized equipment in the hospital, especially trained techs
for the surgery itself and the implants that are required,
and then you're gonna have the rehab program afterwards
that really makes the most effective use of your surgery.