Rotator Cuff Surgeon in Dallas: Dr. Brett Raynor

Board-Certified | Fellowship-Trained in Vail | U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Physician | D Magazine Best Doctor Every Year Since 2019

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““Thank you Dr. Raynor for using your amazing God given surgical talents and abilities for my very successful shoulder surgery. Your professional and excellent personal care is appreciated. I am on the road to to a complete recovery. You are the Best!””
— CD
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Told you need rotator cuff surgery?

Bring your MRI. The first question is which kind of tear you have: a worn-in tear that usually earns a real trial of physical therapy before anyone operates, or a tear from an injury that left the arm weak, which does better when it is repaired within the first few months. Dr. Raynor sorts out which one you have, whether surgery is the right call, and exactly how he would do it. What a second opinion with Dr. Raynor involves.

Why patients choose Dr. Raynor for rotator cuff repair

  • It is one of the operations he performs most often, including large and revision repairs that other surgeons refer to him.

  • Surgery only when it is necessary. Worn-in tears get therapy first, with a twelve-week checkpoint. Tears from an injury with weakness are a different conversation, had early. He will tell you which you have.

  • A repair built to lie flat. Arthroscopic, through four small portals, with a double row of anchors that presses the whole width of the tendon against the bone, and the biceps tendon addressed at the same time so it does not keep hurting afterward.

  • A recovery you can plan around. Outpatient surgery with a nerve block, six weeks in a sling, strengthening from three months, most patients doing what they want by six months.

  • Training and teaching. Vanderbilt residency, sports medicine fellowship at the Steadman Philippon Research Institute in Vail, published research on shoulder instability and shoulder pain, instructor at AANA Masters Courses, reviewer for the American Journal of Sports Medicine since 2016, and a team physician for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team.

What is a rotator cuff tear, and how is it repaired?

Dr. Raynor explains what the rotator cuff is and what a tear means in the first video. The second is his narrated, step-by-step animation of the repair itself.

Watch Dr. Raynor walk through an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, step by step, including the biceps tenodesis.

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