Anyone familiar with this procedure??? Had it done on you???
It is used to treat biceps tendonitis of the shoulder whereby, in kinda layman's terms, the tendon is cut where it attaches into the labrum and reattached on the humerus thereby eliminating the tendon's span of the shoulder joint and hopefully, the source of its irritation/inflammation...
Love to hear from anyone who's had this done; particularly from anyone who enjoyed success with it, but I suppose I should listen to the failures too, but jeeze, I hope those are few...
Surgery is complete!! They found more issues with my shoulder than expected. Original MRI just showed a biceps tendon tear, but they found some deep partial rotator cuff tears, labrum tear and bone spurs. MRIs don't show everything!
I started a blog to outline the surgery and recovery. Hope it helps someone else that had all the questions I did.
forums.usms.org/blog.php
Interesting journal article on biceps tendon pain.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../
Surgery is complete!! They found more issues with my shoulder than expected. Original MRI just showed a biceps tendon tear, but they found some deep partial rotator cuff tears, labrum tear and bone spurs. MRIs don't show everything!
I started a blog to outline the surgery and recovery. Hope it helps someone else that had all the questions I did.
forums.usms.org/blog.php
Interesting journal article on biceps tendon pain.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../
