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Each year, approximately 200,000 Americans require shoulder surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff and an additional 400,000 have surgery for related tendonitis or partial tears. In 2011 an estimated 66,485 shoulder arthroplasty procedures were identified (33% RSA, 44% TSA, and 23% hemiarthroplasty). A third of those were reverse total shoulder replacements. These surgeries have become common and routine in our society. Studies show more people each year are receiving massages for a variety of reasons. It is important that chiropractors have a better understanding of how some of the most common orthopedic surgeries are performed and how they can best help our their patients.
This course describes pathologies, the surgeries, and the post-surgical precautions doctors may place on patients, so the chiropractor can work safely on his/her patients without doing harm to them or the surgical sites. Students will learn how to communicate with surgeons and physical therapists “in their own language.”
