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Article: Shoulder surgery can put end to pain
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- November 14, 2007
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The Doctor Game /W. Gifford Jones MD.
TODAY, thousands of patients are having hip and knee replacement surgery that allows them to return to a more active and pain-free life. But what happens to the hip and knee can also strike the shoulder.
So why is it that people are more likely to shy away from shoulder surgery when it can be a crippling condition?
One woman recently said to me with great hesitancy, "Doctor, the pain in my shoulder has become so severe it's difficult to move my arm. I'm embarrassed to tell you, it's now even hard for me to wipe my bottom."
If you don't believe this is a medical emergency, you've never had this problem.
But how does such an embarrassing situation ...