Originally Posted by
Pratt
Never had shoulder surgery, but my advice on orthopedists (based on personal experience) is to call up the local professional sports teams, and/or colleges with big time athletic teams and get the same of their shoulder, or knee, or back, what ever, guy and go see him. He will be top notch and will be used to patients for whom curtailing activity is not on the table.
Good luck.
Yes, get an actual specialist in shoulders if you can. That's what I did. My town has fine general orthopedists. While I'd never heard any complaints about their shoulder work, I had the opportunity to get mine done at a medical center where the ortho group served the various local major pro league teams. My guy did nothing but shoulders and elbows. Would I have been perfectly happy with the local generalists? Most likely yes. But given the opportunity to have an actual shoulder specialist do it, why wouldn't anyone do that?