2024 AANA/ISAKOS Specialty Day All-Access Pass-Debate Speaker #3: It's the Biceps! Fix the Biceps With Tenotomy vs. Tenodesis

Debate Speaker #3: It's the Biceps! Fix the Biceps With Tenotomy vs. Tenodesis

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The speaker discusses shoulder pain caused mainly by the biceps tendon, emphasizing that fixing the biceps leads to great outcomes. A 40-year-old patient with a partial rotator cuff tear and bicipital groove fluid is presented. Treatment includes ultrasound evaluation and an innovative surgical technique combining American and French methods for biceps tenodesis using sutures without anchors or immobilization. The procedure involves suturing the long head of the biceps to the tendon of the short head and the coracoid. The speaker invites practitioners to learn this technique at upcoming cadaver labs in Florida and Munich, promoting improved shoulder repair methods.

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Guillermo Arce, M.D.

Keywords

biceps tendon

shoulder pain

biceps tenodesis

rotator cuff tear

innovative surgical technique