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ClevelaND CliNiC martiN health News

Shoulder Injuries Treated With can be painful, and a tennis match or golf outing would be patients to begin their post-operative rehabilitation sooner. In

Arthroscopy Heal Faster With nearly impossible. Understandably, shoulder injuries used the last few years, other innovations have made the recovery
to be among the most dreaded by weekend warriors and
process easier, including surgical improvements and better
Less Pain professional athletes alike. In fact, a rotator cuff injury was post-operative pain management.
often a career-ending incident in sports. According to Evans, sutures today use new materials that
New surgical techniques and better pain management “Shoulder patients can experience much quicker recovery do not require intra-operative knots. Overall, the procedures
enable easier recovery. Remember Operation, that electronic and much less pain using the arthroscopic techniques are less abrasive to the tissue. New, long-acting pain
board game in which one wayward movement causes other developed in recent years,” said Peter J. Evans, M.D., Ph.D., medications used following surgery last for 72 to 96 hours.
body parts to spasm and a loud buzzer to sound? chair of the Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute in Often patients need little or no pain medication after their
Just like in the board game, an injured rotator cuff can wreak Florida and orthopaedic surgeon with subspecialty training initial recovery due to the new techniques.
havoc with other body parts – and everyday activities like in shoulder, hand and upper extremity surgery. “Today, my A painful shoulder condition or injury can impede writing,
writing and eating – because it’s the rotator cuff that allows us patients return to their preferred activities quickly.” eating, dressing, hair brushing and other activities of daily
to lift and rotate the arm. The rotator cuff is composed of four Instead of a large incision circumventing the shoulder, Dr. living. With newer techniques and appropriate rehabilitation,
muscles plus attached tendons and other tissue in the shoulder. Evans uses an arthroscope, a pencil-sized instrument with a arthroscopic surgery can fully restore movement in the shoulder.
It holds the arm in the joint and helps attach the humerus (long tiny camera at the tip, to examine and repair the tissues in the “Prior to arthroscopy, rotator cuff repair required months
bone in the upper arm) to the elbow, neck and torso. joint. Recovery is quicker and less painful when compared of post-operative rehabilitation and many patients avoided
Rotator cuff tendons can tear from age, overuse, traumatic to an open procedure. the surgery,” said Evans. “Using arthroscopy, we can help our
injury or a fall. When it is injured, even reaching for a book Using arthroscopy also minimizes swelling and allows patients return to a fuller life without constant pain.”
To make an appointment with an orthopaedic specialist at
Cleveland Clinic Martin Health, call (844) 630-4968 or visit
ClevelandClinicFlorida.org/Access today.

Club News

Enjoy You Summe

At HarborChase Stuart Woman’s Club Awards
Stuart $21,000 In Scholarships

Scholarship recipients (left to right) are Victoria King,
Julia Rose Hochstein, Angelina Vaccaro, Isabella Rose
and Jenna Rinzel. Not pictured are Jessica Sossie and
Genesis Fernandez.

Seven graduating seniors were awarded $21,000 in college
scholarships by the GFWC Woman’s Club of Stuart. This
brings the total amount of college scholarships awarded by
the club to $309,000 in the past 12 years.
Scholarship recipients are Victoria King and Jenna Rinzel,
South Fork High School; Julia Rose Hochstein, Martin
County High; Angelina Vaccaro, Isabella Rose, Genesis
Fernandez and Jessica Sossie, all graduates of Jensen Beach
High. The girls were honored at the club’s end-of-year
luncheon that was held at the Elliott Museum.
The Woman’s Club was founded in 1913 in Stuart, and
its nonprofit mission is community service. The club’s
scholarship program is its most important benevolence
program. The club also supports services for veterans, people
who are homeless, and children. For more information, go to
www.womansclubofstuart.com.

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