All You Need to Know About Shoulder Surgery | Expert Shoulder Care | Manipal Hospital Jayanagar

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:04]If you have an injury like this, so >> [music] >> a lot of patients do ask me when can you go back to sport? So, you require 3 months of physiotherapy [music] and after that, if you really want to go back to sport, you can just definitely possible to go back to sport >> [music] >> and the time is 6 months. So, you need to undergo something called as strength and conditioning S&C training specifically focusing on [music] this particular action if you're a badminton player. So, we need to really work on your smashers and the scapula muscles so that [music] it works in tandem and gives you this wonderful results by 6 months. So, 6 months definitely you can return back to sport. So, what happens [music] if you don't treat a rotator cuff tear? That means if such a patient comes and suppose I do advise surgery and and surgery [music] I understand can be difficult to understand for most of the patients. But if you don't undergo a surgery, what will happen to [music] you in 3 years or 5 years time? What happens is muscle tears more and eventually such joints, the shoulder joint, becomes arthritic and we call that as cuff [music] tear arthropathy. When that develops, you can't repair this with a keyhole surgery. You need to undergo a shoulder replacement and the shoulder replacement technically we [music] call it as a reverse shoulder replacement.

[00:01:14]That's a major surgery and an open surgery where you have to completely open the joint and replace the shoulder.

[00:01:19][music] So, it is better to always treat it as an arthroscopy, but if you are coming late, even that has a solution which is a shoulder replacement surgery.

[00:01:28]Thank you so much.

[00:01:30]If you have any further queries, you can always contact Manipal Hospitals where we can help you.