Who benefits from shoulder surgery? | Cartilage damage in the shoulder joint

Who benefits from shoulder surgery?

Only when all conservative treatment options have been tried and exhausted should surgical treatment of cartilage damage to the shoulder joint be discussed.This means that an artificial joint replacement should only be considered when a drug, orthopedic, physiotherapeutic and/or alternative medical treatment no longer leads to a reduction in symptoms. Why the surgical intervention should be delayed as long as possible is not necessarily only due to the associated surgical risks. It is rather due to the fact that an artificial joint replacement does not have an unlimited life span (approx. 10 years), so that a joint replacement at a younger age can possibly be accompanied by one or even several operations for material replacement in the course of a lifetime.