Compression and Cold Therapy on the Post-Operative Shoulder

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patient has undergone unilateral Rotator cuff repair or Acromioplasty

- Willing to sign a consent form

- Able to follow study procedures

Exclusion Criteria:

- Non-ambulatory

- Participation in concurrent investigational protocol

- Any bleeding coagulopathies

- Raynaud's disease or other vasospastic hypersensitivity or circulatory syndromes

- Hypertension (due to secondary vasoconstriction)

- Compromised local circulation (including localized compromise due to multiple
surgical procedures)

- A history of vascular impairment (such as frostbite or arterial sclerosis)

- Cold allergy (cold urticaria) or prior adverse reactions to cold application

- Rheumatoid arthritis

- Local limb ischemia

- Paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria

- Cryoglobulinemia or any disease that produces a marked cold pressor response

- Inflammatory phlebitis

- Acute inflammations of the veins (thrombophlebitis)

- Decompensated cardiac insufficiency

- Arterial dysregulation

- Erysipelas

- Deep acute venal thrombosis (phlebothrombosis)

- Carcinoma and carcinoma metastasis in the affected extremity

- Decompensated hypertonia

- Pulmonary embolisms

- Congestive heart failure

- Pulmonary edema

- Suspected deep vein thrombosis

- Acute inflammatory skin diseases

- Infection

- Venous or arterial occlusive disease