Dr. Privitera uses various protocols after surgery to optimize your recovery.  Please understand and communicate with your physical therapist that the PT script and/or printed protocol may have modifications specific to your surgery.

 

Shoulder

• Arthroscopic Rotator cuff repair:

• Arthroscopic Bankart (anterior labral) repair:

• Arthroscopic Posterior labral repair:

• Arthroscopic SLAP repair:

• Biceps tenodesis:

• Open Bankart repair:

• Capsular Release

• Anatomic Total Shoulder replacement:

• Reverse Total Shoulder replacement

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Knee

• ACL reconstruction with hamstring autograft: 

• ACL reconstruction with allograft (donor graft):

• Meniscus repair: 

• Patella/Quad Tendon Repair

• Meniscal Transplant

• Osteotomies: Tibial Tubercle, High Tibial, Distal Femoral

• Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation

• Patella Fracture Open Reduction Internal Fixation:

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Hip 

• Proximal Hamstring repair

• Arthroscopic Labral repair

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Elbow

• Olecranon Open Reduction Internal Fixation

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Ankle

• Achilles Tendon Repair

Non-Surgical Protocols

 

• Achilles tendon rupture

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• Proximal humerus fracture

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• Multidirectional shoulder instability-Watson protocol