...and this is what really irks me about this company's lack of recognition and the industry per se, far more than any sluggish investment returns. Her Surgeon has never heard of ATI and was just going to cast her out as unfixable? What an ill informed 'professional' Orthopedic Physician he demonstrates he is. He professionally does not have a clue about ATI despite it being available for 10 years to Australians clinically - continuing medical education and professional development anyone....?
You, a lay person, are better informed on a very available innovative treatment in his profession and may yet be the difference in her having a treatment that saves her some quality of life in her older years, than some useless Surgeon, who, ignorant of his own profession, just leaves her with no standard of care.
The rotator cuff generally deemed the subscapularis, the supraspinatus, the infraspinatus and the teres minor muscles/tendons. If she has a "rotator cuff" tear, that is most commonly the supraspinatus. If her bicep hanging on by a thread, that is a not unrelated but separate issue, goes as well, left unaddressed by her Surgeon, then not only is her abduction, medial rotation, and lateral rotation (basically raising her arm overhead and rotating) of her right arm impaired from the rotator cuff tear, so is her flexion and supination of her hand from the bicep tear - its probably the long head of the bicep.
Its a disgrace that so many older people are effectively left to the disability scrap heap through pure ignorance, when ATI could very well help for a mere $6K or so. Patient abandonment, in older people particularly, a real problem in Australia, particularly in generally private practice specialist medicine, where in a litigious society, its far safer professionally to do nothing but give the oldies a pat on the hand and give them a good "there, there".
"The prevalence of asymptomatic rotator cuff tears was one-half of all tears in the 50s, whereas it accounted for two-thirds of those over the age of 60."
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