I don't know what your insurance situation is, but if you can get your surgery done by the doctor who would do it for the professional sports teams in Boston, then you know he has already been selected as the best doctor with the latest technique, best equipment, fastest recovery time, best physical therapy teams, etc. The sports teams HAVE to have the very best because of their investment in their players. Whoever you decided to have do it, ask him what is his theory about pain management. Some doctors say that if your body is fighting pain your body cannot also be healing. That's the theory I like.