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There was a bit of vindication for both Curt Schilling and Dr. Craig Morgan yesterday, as Morgan completed surgery on the right shoulder of the Red Sox pitcher. Not only did the surgery go well, but the findings were as good as could have been expected from the examinations done prior to the arthroscopic procedure. Morgan called it "kind of a best-case scenario."

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While Morgan was planning on performing biceps tenodesis surgery - in which the biceps tendon is moved outside the shoulder into a hole in the bone where the diseased tendon can repair itself - he wasn't entirely sure what he would find with regards to the labrum and the rotator cuff, especially the rotator cuff.

With the rotator cuff, there was really only good news for Schilling. Morgan said it had an unusual tear, but not a major one. It took just one stitch to repair.

"The status of the rotator cuff was much better than was predicted," Morgan said. "He did have disease in the biceps tendon, that was his major problem. We transferred the biceps tendon.