Knee & Shoulder Surgeon in Port St. Lucie & Palm Beach Gardens

When is shoulder or knee surgery the right call?

Not every painful shoulder or knee needs an operation, and a good deal of this practice is spent telling people so. The first job is working out what is actually wrong — examination, imaging, and testing the joint through the movements that hurt, rather than treating a scan report in isolation.

Where surgery is the answer, it is done arthroscopically wherever the injury allows, with minimally invasive reconstruction and, in selected cases, biologic augmentation. Every procedure is planned alongside the rehabilitation that follows it, because the two are one treatment, not two.

Whether the damage arrived over twenty years or in one afternoon, the aim is the same: keep as much of your own joint as possible, and get you back to what you were doing before.

What shoulder and knee problems do we operate on?

Rotator Cuff Tears & Tendinopathy

Worn or torn cuff tendons — the ache at night, the weakness reaching overhead.

Shoulder Labral Tears & Instability

Damage to the rim that holds the shoulder in its socket, causing clicking, catching, or a shoulder that keeps coming out.

AC Joint Injuries & Clavicle Trauma

The separated shoulder or broken collarbone that follows a fall or a heavy collision.

Adhesive Capsulitis (Frozen Shoulder)

A shoulder that has quietly seized up as the capsule tightens around it.

Patellar Instability / Dislocation

A kneecap that slides out of its groove, often more than once.

Meniscus Tears & Cartilage Defects

Torn cushioning inside the knee — the swelling, the catching, the joint that locks.

Knee Osteoarthritis & Degenerative Joint Disease

Joint surfaces worn thin over years, stiff in the morning and sore by evening.

Patellofemoral Joint Pain Syndrome

Pain at the front of the knee, usually a tracking or muscle-balance problem rather than damage.

What surgery is meant to achieve

• A joint that holds together and moves the way it should
• Less pain and swelling, and an end to the catching and locking
• Range of motion back, and usable
• Better muscular support around a properly aligned joint
• Rehab that progresses on a plan instead of drifting
• A lower chance of the same injury happening again
• As much of your own joint and soft tissue preserved as possible
• A recovery plan built for your activity level, not a generic one
• Treated early, less chance of needing something bigger later
• A supported route back to work, ordinary life and sport

For shoulder pain at night or weakness lifting the arm, see rotator cuff tear treatment and repair.

Come in, get a straight answer about what is wrong, and leave knowing what happens next.