TJ Ridley, MD

08/31/2026

How to stop the bleeding of a cut finger tip!

08/31/2026

What to do if you cut the tip of your finger! 🙋‍♂️🙃
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The tip of the finger is very vascular and will bleed like stink! It often bleeds too quickly to really see anything making it difficult to clean it and/or place a bandage. That’s where the homemade tourniquet comes to play! A couple times around the finger and the bleeding slows enough to evaluate how deep it is, clean the area, and place a bulky compression dressing to allow the area to clot off and start healing.

08/17/2026

New chapter. New opportunity. Coming this fall.

I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining Stellis Health this fall!

I’m looking forward to bringing my experience in orthopedic surgery and sports medicine to the Stellis community while helping grow the orthopedic and sports medicine services available to patients.

There’s a lot I’m excited to build, and I can’t wait to share more.

See you this fall!

04/02/2026

So honored!

Twin Cities Orthopedics provides comprehensive orthopedic specialty care at over 40 convenient clinics in the Twin Cities and Western Wisconsin.

03/20/2026

See full video here!

https://youtu.be/hgOrXHVAoQ4?si=SqLlCBjmuVXq8ONv

03/19/2026

Complex repair of a large rotator cuff tear using the patient’s own biceps tendon to augment the repair, similar to a SCR (superior capsular reconstruction).
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In very large and/or chronic rotator cuff tears, the tissue can become retracted and scarred, making mobility of the tissue difficult. Healthy, mobile tissue is needed for a successful rotator cuff repair.
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If the native rotator cuff tissue cannot be repaired, there are limited options to restore the shoulder without moving to a shoulder replacement. These options mainly include accepting a partial repair, superior capsular reconstruction (SCR), tuberoplasty and balloon implantation. Many of these have relatively unpredictable results; and most studies show that a primary repair is more reliable and successful than these options.
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In this video I demonstrate a large and retracted rotator cuff tear for which I utilized the patients own biology (their biceps tendon) to help with the repair, providing a structural bridge for the rotator cuff, as well as augmenting the biology with their own healthy tissue. Addiontally, the biceps can act like the SCR, helping to keep the humeral head depressed which can allow for less tension on the rotator cuff while it’s healing.
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10/15/2025

Rapid fire posterior labral repair in the shoulder

06/05/2025

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05/13/2025

Testimonials Tuesday!

04/29/2025

The “cam” deformity of the femoral neck is the leading cause of hip impingement. This is essentially an area of extra bone that creates impaction and friction between the femoral head and acetabulum. What then gets caught in the middle of this is the labrum, which sits at the edge of the acetabulum. This bony impingement is what creates the soft tissue injury of a labral tear in many cases. 

During hip arthroscopy for hip impingement and labral tear, the Cam resection is a vitally important part of the procedure to eliminate the bony impingement