3 things Surgeons won’t tell you about Shoulder surgery.
Since you can only use your hand if your shoulder works, maybe you should read this first.
Hey all!
Jason here,
Your friendly, neighbourhood Pain expert and the owner of the Only place to go for Shoulder Pain.
This week I am going to talk about the research about Shoulder surgery. You will find out things the surgeons very rarely tell patients about Shoulder surgery and why it is not the miracle cure for Shoulder pain it is advertised as.
1. 40% of the people with shoulder pain had rotator cuff tears and it becomes even more common the older people get.
The WHY: This is the most common problem that causes shoulder pain. It is not a new tear, it Is a tear that develops over a long time of repeated injury to the muscle. This repeated injury comes from the shoulder joint moving poorly, like a car that wears down its tyres due to bad wheel alignment. Even if you have surgery to repair the tear is unlikely to resolve what caused the muscle to tear.
Does replacing your tyres fix the wheel alignment?
2. Only 49.9% of people returned to the same level of ability after a shoulder rotator cuff muscle repair surgery.
THE WHY: Surgery causes permeant damage to the body that affects its ability to perform its natural function. In the case of pain, it almost ways end up worsening the problem as the damage caused by the surgery will never heal. Think of the old wooden chair that you tried to repair. Every time you try to fix it, it just breaks more and more until it is impossible to fix.
It is also unlikely to address what caused the rotator cuff tear in the first place.
3. When asked 2 years after their shoulder replacement surgery if they were happy with the outcome only 57% of people said they were.
The WHY: Shoulder replacements surgeries when done purely to address pain and not arthritis do not address the true cause of the pain and therefore the pain remains and gets progressively worse. With a shoulder replacement, permanent damage and foreign object (the replaced shoulder) is placed in the body causes a lot of problems.
Think of it they were born perfect, the surgery disrupts a system that was working perfectly. By putting in imperfect joints and damaging the body to do the surgery.
Often what leads to the most problems are the complications that arise from the surgery. These are wounds not healing, infections and nerves getting damaged during the surgery.
BONUS FACT THAT SURGEON WON’T TELL YOU
The National Institute of clinical excellence in the UK said that “Paracetamol, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (AKA NSAIDs) (these include aspirin and ibuprofen), benzodiazepines or opioids should not be offered for the management of Chronic Shoulder pain. This is because there was little or no evidence that they made any difference to people’s quality of life, pain, or psychological distress.
There you go. Even the experts from the UK that guide The Doctors and specialist have said that pain killers and anti-inflammatory do not work for old Shoulder pain.
Why are you still trying to see if it will work?
Try something different by booking an appointment with us. You know from the reviews and testimonials that we are the only place to go for Shoulder pain.
Jason
