Shoulder surgery

Chronic shoulder pain can make participating in daily activities or sports you love challenging. At Aurora BayCare Medical Center, we specialize in expert, tailored orthopedic treatments to reduce pain and improve your shoulder’s function.

Care for shoulder injuries: Why choose Aurora BayCare Medical Center?

Our orthopedics team includes fellowship-trained specialists with extra education and demonstrated expertise in shoulder anatomy and care. We design our leading-edge shoulder treatment plans with you in mind. We offer:

• Advanced, research-backed treatments: When our team recommends minimally invasive surgical techniques, we employ the latest research to ensure fewer complications and quicker recovery.
• Convenient care after surgery: We have rehabilitation clinics located throughout Wisconsin. You can have your postoperative visit and therapy all in the same location, with no need to travel to the hospital.
• Sophisticated procedures: We offer the most advanced therapies, often pioneering new procedures such as cartilage restoration.

Shoulder surgery

When shoulder pain persists after nonoperative orthopedics treatments, our experts evaluate your injury to determine if surgery is right for you. We offer:

Minimally invasive shoulder surgery

We use arthroscopic techniques to perform many shoulder surgeries. Arthroscopy allows surgeons to visualize, diagnose and repair damaged bone and tissue using miniature surgical instruments.

Surgeons insert a thin instrument with a small camera attached (arthroscope) through a tiny incision to see the shoulder. Then, they insert tiny surgical instruments through additional small incisions to perform surgery.

Shoulder replacement

Surgeons on our orthopedics team complete 25 times more of these surgeries than the national average. You can trust the demonstrated experience of our surgical team when you need shoulder replacement surgery. This advanced technique helps people with severe shoulder damage regain appropriate pain-free function.

Bankart repair

Specialists repair tears in the labrum, the cartilage ring around the shoulder socket, using arthroscopy. They remove damaged tissue and bone spurs before reattaching the ligament to the bone.

Capsular shift

Sometimes, injury or overuse causes tissue in the shoulder capsule, a fluid-filled sac that encloses the joint, to stretch and shift. Our surgeons use arthroscopy to tighten this tissue and stabilize the shoulder.

Latarjet procedure

When bone wears away at the shoulder socket’s front, we graft healthy bone from elsewhere in the shoulder. We then replace damaged bone in the socket with the healthy bone.

Rotator cuff repair

We repair tears to the rotator cuff, the muscle and tendons surrounding the shoulder, with arthroscopic surgery. We can repair many rotator cuff tears with arthroscopy, but you might need open surgery if you have a more severe injury.

Shoulder impingement surgery

Surgeons use arthroscopy to repair tissue damage caused by shoulder impingement. Impingement is when inflamed tissue prevents the shoulder joint from moving properly.

AC joint reconstruction

If you have pain in your acromioclavicular (AC) joint (where the scapula and clavicle meet), we begin with nonsurgical treatments. These treatments include icing or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen.

If you still have pain after about six months, our surgeons can treat you with arthroscopy.

Not all AC joint reconstructions are arthroscopic. Depending on the extent of the damage, you may need open surgery.

Biceps tendon repair

Orthopedic surgeons often repair the biceps tendon during larger shoulder surgeries such as rotator cuff repair. Doctors reattach the tendon to the humerus, or ball portion of the shoulder joint.

Shoulder fracture repair

When fractures are severe or bones shift, doctors may repair these bone breaks with surgery. Our specialists will evaluate your injury to see if surgery is the right choice for you.