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..
I got opinions from 4 surgeons, including one who was the Johns Hopkins sports team shoulder specialist. After showing all of them the MRI shot and talking to them, I took two off my list because they seemed kind of awe of the MRI ("Wow, that's a big tear!" "Hmmmm....") I chose the JHU guy for several reasons (one was I found an article from some East Coast magazine "What surgeon do surgeons go to?" and he was the one shoulder surgeons went to) but the fact that he talked to me in terms of returning to all my athletic activities vs. just having a successful surgery was the deal maker. Turned out to be a good decision.