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About: The Park Surgery

After 13 years of complaining about severe pain in the shoulder after an accident, finally an operation has repaired the damage which was getting worse. In spite of my insistence that it was a tendon issue, I was ignored and treated for muscle injury after an xray showed no broken bones. Years of frustration at the hands of a system that allows physios to treat you without a full diagnosis and ignore your requests for a full scan or at least an ultra sound scan. Finally, due to the pain in the arm caused by wrongly applied physio exercises and a general weakening of the arm, I was given an ultrasound scan which showed a 2cm by 2cm tear in the bicep ligament. The consultant surgeon asked me why I had not had this treated earlier?...very good question. During the op, the damage was found to be much worse resulting in a rotator cuff repair as well as repairing the torn ligament.

All of these years of suffering when a simple ultrasound scan at the beginning would have shown the problem. Thank you National Health Service. The stupid AI checker will not allow more than one capital letter per word.

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