A rotator cuff tear in your shoulder often requires surgery and a recovery of about six months. LSO/Getty Images Q. I am a 55-year-old skier who just returned from Colorado. Last week, I fell and ...

A rotator cuff tear ... surgery because the supraspinatus tendon (or one of the other rotator cuff tendons) becomes detached from the humerus (upper arm bone) bone's head and can't heal itself ...

Published results showed the use of a novel bioresorbable scaffold-anchor to augment healing after rotator cuff repair ... Angerett, DO, from the department of orthopedic surgery at University ...