Sorry to hear about your injury, hope you have a speedy rehab!
I did my grad degree working on RC injuries and studying ways to improve recovery. Your recovery depends a lot on how long you've had the injury. If the tear was minor or incomplete prior to your fall, you actually have a pretty good chance of success with your outcomes after recovery.
You are also right in that the failure rate is high after surgery, but that doesn't tell the complete story. Research has come a long way in trying to improve the surgery, including the fascia technique among others.
Since the primary reason we have a RC is to keep our shoulder joint in tact, despite the failure rate, it still makes sense to go along with it, because as you noted, shoulder replacements are really tough.
I've met loads of patients who have had good success after surgery, but again it depends on how old your tear is. I don't know where you're based but UM has an excellent Ortho department (so does Henry Ford, and Cleveland Clinic too).
The real take home of this season is... well it sucked. The thing to do is: first, hate the damn loss. Why would we as fans take something away (from a season of disappointments) from a huge disappointment like this?
The team deserved everything it got- even if it were to somehow get this win. They played hard all game and its not in any of our power to say they don't deserve a big win. THEY make their own destiny, we just get to sit and watch.
Even if the teams play eachother on the last game of the year, they would still have a chance to play AGAIN on the B10 championship game. The whole reason that the game is so popular is how much it means for each team and they only play once. Other rivalries that are good (NYY vs Boston, NC vs Duke...) play eachother multiple times, so the spark is not as strong as our rivalry. Have to keep them in the same division.
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Sorry to hear about your injury, hope you have a speedy rehab!
I did my grad degree working on RC injuries and studying ways to improve recovery. Your recovery depends a lot on how long you've had the injury. If the tear was minor or incomplete prior to your fall, you actually have a pretty good chance of success with your outcomes after recovery.
You are also right in that the failure rate is high after surgery, but that doesn't tell the complete story. Research has come a long way in trying to improve the surgery, including the fascia technique among others.
Since the primary reason we have a RC is to keep our shoulder joint in tact, despite the failure rate, it still makes sense to go along with it, because as you noted, shoulder replacements are really tough.
I've met loads of patients who have had good success after surgery, but again it depends on how old your tear is. I don't know where you're based but UM has an excellent Ortho department (so does Henry Ford, and Cleveland Clinic too).