When it’s time to seek care for your shoulder or elbow pain, choose an experienced medical team that gives you more advanced options to live pain-free.  At Geisinger, you’ll benefit from being the focus of a full team of experts with one goal - giving you the most appropriate care to relieve your pain and restore your mobility. 

Geisinger’s orthopaedic experts rely on the most trusted methods to preserve the natural function of the shoulder and elbow and increase their longevity. When conservative treatments such as physical therapy or medications don’t work, Geisinger offers advanced options.

Stop living with shoulder or elbow pain. Geisinger’s Shoulder and Elbow Center offers advanced solutions for all types of shoulder and elbow problems.

For more information, call Geisinger Orthopaedic Institute at 1.866.414.4988 or 570.271.7969.

CONDITIONS AND TREATMENTS

At Geisinger, our team of orthopaedic experts offers the latest techniques and technology to get you back to lifting your young child, throwing a ball or swinging a golf club. We prefer to treat conditions without surgery, whenever possible.

When surgery is required, our fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeons care for people with a broad range of conditions of the shoulder and elbow.

Common conditions of the shoulder and elbow include

• Arthritis
• Bursitis
• Dislocations
• Fractures
• Frozen shoulder
• Golfer's elbow
• Numbness in the elbow and hand (“cubital tunnel syndrome”)
• Rotator cuff injury of the shoulder
• Separations
• Sprains and strains
• Tendinitis
• Tennis elbow

We provide advanced therapies and treatments, including:

• Arthroscopic surgery, using the smallest incisions possible
• Replacement and repair of tendons and ligaments
• Shoulder replacement (including reverse total shoulder replacement)
• Elbow replacement
• Complex fracture care after accidents
• Custom braces and orthotics
• Custom casting and splinting
• Reconstructive surgery after injury, including sports injuries and other accidents
• Reconstructive surgery related to arthritis or deformities
• Custom braces and orthotics
• Treatments for “Thrower's shoulder” and elbow injuries
• Repair of the labrum of the shoulder (“labral repair”)
• Revisions of previous joint replacements