Shoulder Surgery
Do experience awful pain in your shoulder because of arthritis and have a hard time moving your arm? It hurts you to reach across the table to pick up the salt or to pull a sweater over your head, and forget about scratching that itch in the small of your back. Well I have good news for you; shoulder surgery can correct your problem restoring the mobility in your joint.
Perhaps you've been discouraged because none of the medications have worked nor has medication, but you've been contemplating shoulder surgery. The most common surgical procedure for arthritis in the shoulder is joint replacement. Shoulder surgery can decrease your pain while increasing your range of motion at the same time.
Let me explain a little bit about how it works, your shoulder has three joints that work together so that you are able to move your arm. The one that is giving you so many problems is called the glenomueral joint, it's the largest and the one that is affected most by arthritis. This joint connects your arm bone to the shoulder blade. Almost all of the movement from your shoulder happens here.
Common types of arthritis that occur in the shoulder
• Osteoarthritis causes pain and is the number one arthritis found in the shoulder.
• Rheumatoid arthritis is rarely found in the shoulder, but it does attack other large joint like the knees and hips.
If left untreated arthritis in your shoulder can cause tears in rotator cuff. And if you don't have arthritis and tear your rotator cuff without having it fixed it can lead to arthritis in the shoulder. If you are experiencing arthritis in your shoulder from post-traumatic arthritis and avascular necrosis, then, surgery can help to alleviate your symptoms. You should start by discussing joint replacement with your physician. Joint replacement surgery will increase your range of motion in your shoulder allowing you to move your arm much easier.
If you and your doctor decide that joint replacement surgery is for you, then your surgeon will remove the deteriorated shoulder joint replacing it with a metal and plastic prosthesis. This prosthesis replaces the ball-shaped top of your arm bone as well as the socket shaped cavity of your shoulder blade. Your surgeon will also clean out any bone spurs or in flamed tissue from the area around your shoulder joint.
If you decided to have shoulder surgery you will need to make a recovery commitment, because gaining back your strength and learning how to use your new shoulder joint after shoulder surgery can take up to a full year. You have to be fully committed to exercising which you will begin the day after your surgery. If you don't stick to your prescribe exercise regime you can end up with stiffness and instability in your new shoulder joint that will make you miserable and wishing that you never had the joint replaced. But overall most people are happy with their new shoulder joints.
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