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There are three types of rotator cuff surgery: 1  Arthroscopic: Your doctor will make a small cut in your shoulder then use an arthroscope -- a tube with a small camera and tiny instruments -- to fix the tear. 2  Open: Your doctor uses larger instruments to go in to the muscles of your shoulder and fix the tear.
Rotator Cuff Tear and the Effectiveness of Surgical Repair. Rotator cuff tears are a common source of debilitating shoulder pain, reduced strength, weakness, and more than 400,000 rotator cuff surgical procedures are performed annually in the US [1].-Repair is designed to reinforce the surgical repair site and protect it from receiving excess load that may result in a re-tear of the rotator cuff tendons, and allow the natural repair process to occur.