Novel Treatment for Rotator Cuff Tears

Exclusion Criteria

• •A tear of the supraspinatus tendon greater \> 50% and any areas of full thickness tearing, concomitant tears \> 25% of other rotator cuff tendons (infraspinatus, teres minor or subscapularis), or acute tear of the glenoid labrum.
• •Evidence of systemic illness/infection requiring oral or IV antibiotics during the recruitment period.
• •Evidence of overlying skin infection or lesion at the proposed device insertion point on the shoulder.
• •Previous corticosteroid injection within three months.
• •Those individuals less than 25 and greater than 75 years of age will be excluded.