Using advanced surgical techniques, most rotator cuff problems can be addressed arthroscopically. The rotator cuff is a series of tendons that over time, with heavy use or injury can actually tear. They generally tear from the attachment site onto the humerus bone. Sometimes they are not actually torn but the tendon is partially torn.

For patients whose shoulder is unstable and “comes out of the socket” with activities, and improve function as well. The shoulder is an inherently unstable joint and the causes of instability are multi- factorial. However, most of the shoulders that are loose can be stabilized by either reattaching the ligaments that are pulled away from the bone, or by tightening up the ligaments that have become stretched out.

CARTICEL uses your own cartilage cells (chondrocytes) to repair the articular cartilage damage in your knee. When implanted into a cartilage injury, your own cells can form new cartilage; this new cartilage is very similar to your original cartilage. The CARTICEL implantation procedure is called Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation or ACI. It is a two-step process.

As the term relates to knee replacement surgery, minimally invasive techniques, instruments and implants have been developed that use all the principles of minimally invasive surgery (shorter incisions, less tissue damage and quicker recovery). For patients with knee arthritis, there are 2 different types of surgery.

Two of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ biggest stars, Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu, used their own blood in an innovative injury treatment before winning the Super Bowl. At least one major league pitcher, about 20 professional soccer players and perhaps hundreds of recreational athletes have also undergone the procedure, commonly called platelet-rich plasma therapy.