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According to recent reports, patients who had surgery for dislocated shoulders are saying the product they used to control the pain caused more harm than good.

Many patients have reported that in trying to ease their pain using the shoulder pain pump, they were actually caused more pain.

Patients Experience More Pain

Erika Creech, 28, was told that she had no cartilage left in here left shoulder joint after she had an operation to fix her dislocated shoulder.

George Limantzakis, 31, endured the same surgery and got the same results.

When both patients were x-rayed they were told that they were among a dozen patients who had also lost cartilage after surgery.

“The use of a post-operative pain pump catheter is the only common link,” explains Dr. Charles Beck.

How Does a Pain Pump Work?

The pain pump reportedly feeds medicine into the body to help reduce the amount of pain to the patient after surgery.

In the 16 patients that Beck says he used the pain pumps on, 13 supposedly lost shoulder cartilage as a result.

“To our knowledge, these pain pump companies are not notifying physicians to specifically not use this pump in the shoulder joint,” says attorney, Charlie Thronson.

(Source: WBIR)

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