6-8 Weeks: Perspectives on Sports Medicine
Jun 22, 2026 · 18 min · 10 segments
How is healing impacted beyond surgical technique, post-operative physical therapy, and activity goals? Listen to our latest podcast as Dr Brian Feeley breaks down factors you may not think about…
Imagine two patients, same age, same rotator cuff tear, the same surgeon does the procedure, it's the same rehab protocol afterwards.
The other is stuck at 130 degrees, still taking pain medicine and is frankly miserable.
Today, I'd like to talk about a randomized trial out of Seoul National University's Bundang Hospital and Dr. Oh, which was just published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, that asks a really provocative question.
If anxiety and depression are dragging down our rotator cuff repair outcomes, and we know that they do, what happens if we just treat the anxiety and de- depression, not with therapy, not with talking about it, with an actual medication starting the night of surgery? I'm your host for this podcast, 6-8 Weeks, Brian Feeley, and for this episode, I wanna talk about this study and show that it's actually providing the biggest difference in terms of short-term outcomes of rotator cuff repair without actually changing a single thing about surgical technique.
Imagine two patients, same age, same rotator cuff tear, the same surgeon does the procedure, it's the same rehab protocol afterwards.
The other is stuck at 130 degrees, still taking pain medicine and is frankly miserable.
Today, I'd like to talk about a randomized trial out of Seoul National University's Bundang Hospital and Dr. Oh, which was just published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, that asks a really provocative question.
If anxiety and depression are dragging down our rotator cuff repair outcomes, and we know that they do, what happens if we just treat the anxiety and de- depression, not with therapy, not with talking about it, with an actual medication starting the night of surgery? I'm your host for this podcast, 6-8 Weeks, Brian Feeley, and for this episode, I wanna talk about this study and show that it's actually providing the biggest difference in terms of short-term outcomes of rotator cuff repair without actually changing a single thing about surgical technique.
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