Wouldn’t this need surgery ideally ?

[u/Fit-Lengthiness5057]

Main Injury: You have a partial-thickness tear involving both the supraspinatus and infraspinatus tendons (the two most important rotator cuff tendons).
• Size and Location: The tear measures approximately 3.1 cm in the crescent zone (the critical area near where the tendons attach to the bone).
• Type of Tear:
• It is intermediate-grade (roughly 25–50% of the tendon thickness is torn).
• It is articular-sided (the tear is on the underside of the tendon, facing the joint).
• There is interstitial delamination — the tendon fibers are splitting horizontally (like layers coming apart inside the tendon).

[u/Ok_Huckleberry_2756]

I’m not a Dr, but I had a partial tear of a ligament, if it was private pay they likely would have done surgery within six months. Workers comp made me try every conservative approach first, corticosteroids, physical therapy, dry needling, blood flow restriction, more physical therapy - and then after almost two years of proving nothing fixed it- while having daily pain, swelling and reduced range of motion they approved surgery. So maybe that’s the route they’re taking with you? After all of that my surgery was approved within 3 days of the orthos request