orthopedic

surgery

Orthopedic surgery

Orthopedic surgery focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases affecting bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, tendons, and nerves. Orthopedic surgeons use medical and surgical treatments as well as rehabilitation to treat their patients.

Here are some of the surgeries performed at the CMC by our orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Marc Beauchamp.

Arthroscopic surgery (surgical procedure)

Most surgeries are performed with a minimally invasive surgical technique through one or two small incisions that allows the shoulder joints to be viewed on a video screen. This technique is performed under regional (numbing the entire shoulder and upper limb) or local anesthesia.

Shoulder rotator cuff repair by arthroscopy

A tear in the rotator cuff is most often a detachment of the tendon from its insertion in the humeral bone. It mainly affects the supraspinatus but can also affect other tendons (subscapular and infraspinatus).

Bankart by arthroscopy (Recurrent dislocation of the shoulder)

Commonly called a shoulder dislocation, a dislocation occurs when the capsule, ligaments, or labrum in the shoulder rupture or become detached from the glenoid bone. A deficit in the joint sets in. If other episodes of shoulder dislocation occur because of trauma, we are dealing with the recurrent dislocation.

Acromioplasty by arthroscopy (Bursitis, tendonitis and impingement syndrome of the shoulder)

We always start with conservative treatments: The cortisone injection, which is effective in the short term, but if it persists, then it is a surgical intervention. The latter increases the space between the rotator cuff and the bony structures above by removing the coracoacromial ligament and a layer of a few millimeters of bone to allow the elevation, rotation and abduction of the arm without tendon-bone contact.