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...CUFF OR NOT TO CUFF...
...Pope's approach. If he wants to make an "essentialist" argument against Islam-that is, to suggest that there may be something in it that is intrinsically more friendly to fanaticism-then he needs to do it in some way other than the seemingly casual, off-the-cuff route he has chosen...
...many sufferers including Rumsfeld (and, lest there be jealousy on the other side of the aisle, John Kerry had his cuff done during the last presidential election) the cuff gets into trouble primarily because it doesn't have enough room; it gets rubbed on, abraded, sanded down, weakened and eventually torn by the undersurface of the bone ( the acromion) that you feel when you put your hand on top of your shoulder. This mechanism, called "impingement," is the initial culprit in most cases. It's probably not "the old high school football injury" coming back to plague you in your...
...days. It's my favorite case and they're my happiest patients. They tell their friends that they're out of pain. More convincingly, they beat their friends at squash and tennis. This seems to be what gets people into my office and it's why arthroscopic cuff repairs are so "hot" right now - word of mouth referral. With all due respect to the medical marketing folks - it ain't them. I can't read a magazine, see a movie or even be put on hold on the telephone without being blasted by medical advertising. We're desensitized, immune...
...tissues directly with my eyes, not on a TV screen). The bio-absorbable suture anchors, pumps, cannulas and all the other little throw-away doodads that make my arthroscopic repair possible typically cost over $1200 per case. The arthroscopic method probably accounts for about half of the rotator cuff surgeries now being done in the U.S. Every year more surgeons are switching over to the all-arthroscopic technique. This is a great example of patient-driven medicine; we are doing a more expensive, technically more difficult procedure primarily for short term comfort and patient acceptance...