Rotator Cuff Repair (RCR) With and Without OrthoADAPT Augmentation

Inclusion Criteria:

- Ages 18-70

- MRI confirmed full thickness or high grade partial thickness rotator cuff tear equal
or more than 1 cm and involving the supraspinatus and/or infraspinatus tendons

- Tear is repairable by surgery using protocol prescribed fixation procedure

- Patient is able to sign and IRB approved study informed consent

- Patient is willing and able to return for follow-up appointments and study related
procedures

- Patient is willing to comply with prescribed physical therapy regimen

Exclusion Criteria:

- Emergency, poly trauma patients

- Prior same shoulder surgery including rotator cuff repair except prior subacromial
decompression or distal clavicle resection

- Shoulder pathology requiring concomitant procedures during the rotator cuff repair
including Labral repair, anterior or posterior stabilization, and/or capsular
plication or shift

- Cervical spine disease

- History of adhesive capsulitis in either shoulder

- Patient whose injury does or may involve litigation

- Diabetics

- Rotator cuff tear cannot be repaired by primary surgical means including superiorly
migrated humeral head, retracted rotator cuff that cannot be mobilized to humeral
head, end stage tears, rotator cuff tissue cannot retain sutures, any comorbidities
that would directly or indirectly affect the reparability of the cuff

- Patients with grade 3 or 4 glenohumeral arthritis

- Patients with systemic collage disease

- Patients with a known hypersensitivity to equine derived materials

- Active or latent infection

- Chronic use of immunosuppressive agents

- Any oral or IM NSAID usage within 5 days before surgery

- Cancer patients

- Decisional impaired patients

- Pregnant women