Rotator Cuff Repair Review
Your review organizes the tendon named in the recommendation with painful motions, strength concerns, function, prior care, and the written imaging report.
What the review organizes
The review considers overhead activity, lifting, rotation, night pain, functional loss, prior rehabilitation, and the tendon findings described in the written report.
It may identify muscle, tendon, nerve-pain mimics, or movement priorities for focused in-person evaluation.
The cuff tendon or tendons named in the recommendation.
Which movements hurt, what feels weak, and what activities are limited.
Whether the operation also includes biceps, labral, clavicle, or decompression work.
Research in context
Each percentage describes a specific study population. Open the study details to see who was studied, what was measured, and how the result should be read.
did not choose surgery during ten years of follow-up after a physical-therapy program
Population: 452 patients with symptomatic, atraumatic, full-thickness rotator cuff tears.
Finding in context: 27% underwent surgery during follow-up. Outcomes improved with physical therapy and did not decline in those who remained nonoperative.
MOON Shoulder prospective cohort, 2024 →of nonoperatively treated partial-thickness cuff tears showed no imaging progression
Population: 37 patients with partial-thickness rotator cuff tears treated without surgery and followed with imaging.
Finding in context: At a mean 46-month follow-up, 24% progressed and 8% became full-thickness tears.
Lo et al., Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine, 2018 →of full-thickness cuff tears found in a community screening caused no reported symptoms
Population: 664 residents who received ultrasound of both shoulders.
Finding in context: 147 people had a full-thickness tear. About two thirds of those tears were asymptomatic.
Minagawa et al., Journal of Orthopaedics, 2013 →These findings provide context for a healthcare conversation. They do not predict an individual result or determine whether a procedure is appropriate.
Acromioplasty, bursectomy, biceps tenodesis, labral treatment, or clavicle work may be included. The review keeps each procedure and its stated goal clear.
AAOS describes rotator cuff repair and notes that acromioplasty may be performed during the same operation.
View source →Your next step
The private screening uses your surgical history and current situation to show a preliminary Focused or Complex Review result.
Start the Rotator Cuff ScreeningSurgical decisions remain with you and your treating surgeon.