"I've Performed Over 3,000 Shoulder Surgeries. Here's The Question That Kept Me Up At Night."
I want to tell you about Margaret.
58 years old. Two cortisone shots. Eight months of PT. A second opinion.
Still couldn't lift her arm. Still waking up at 3am.
I'd seen her story hundreds of times.
Do the PT. Get the shot. Feel better for three weeks. Pain comes back worse.
But Margaret was different.
Because I had already operated on her.
Eighteen months earlier. Clean rotator cuff repair.
And here she was — same stabbing. Same sleepless nights.
That broke something open for me.
What if the surgery fixed the tear — but never touched what was actually causing the pain?
I spent three years looking for the answer.
What I found changed everything.
It wasn't the tear. It was what was starving the tissue underneath it— and it's the reason every treatment you've tried has only ever given you temporary relief.