close

Contacting Your Physician's Staff:

For your convenience, you may contact your Physician's staff by email. For patient privacy staff can not contact you back by email. Please included your phone number and our staff will call you back with in 24 hours.
If your physician's staff email is not listed above, please contact staff by phone - 256.881.5151. Thank you.
email Dr.'s staff

Arthroscopic Acromioplasty

Print E-mail

The top of the shoulder joint is called the acromion. The acromioclavicular joint, or AC joint, is where the acromion meets the collarbone. If the subacromial space is narrowed, the rotator cuff may become pinched and cause pain and irritation. To help alleviate the pain, the shoulder surgeon can shave the under surface of the acromion, called an arthroscopic acromioplasty or decompression, to give the rotator cuff more room to move. The procedure occasionally is accompanied by a distal clavicle resection or debridement as part of a subacromial decompression.