A severe shoulder injury like a complete rotator cuff tear can significantly impair function and may necessitate surgical repair.

“at 86 being com a guy who could still do pull-ups who was still swimming in the lake this guy's my hero all his own yard work everything and he was running to get out of the sprinkler did a banana peel that had a dislocation of his shoulder ripped off two and a half of his four tenants and remember one of them never tears so almost his complete functional rotator cuff he was planning to come up to New York to visit and we did a little uh face time and he he couldn't lift his arm it was like this and I and he's 86.”