White Plains Hospital First in Westchester to Perform Innovative…

For John Rimmer, a 68-year-old New Rochelle resident who'd already undergone three separate shoulder surgeries, chronic shoulder pain was something he thought he'd just have to live with. That is until he met Michael A. Schwartz, MD, a sports medicine, arthroscopic and reconstructive orthopedic surgeon at White Plains Hospital, who is one of the few surgeons in the metro region who performs an innovative, new procedure for irreparable rotator cuff tendon tears, called Superior Capsular Reconstruction.