I tore mine in May 2009, tore the major head and not the minor. ALways get a second opinion, and research!! My first ortho told me the MRI showed nothing and to let it heal, after 6 months I was still week. Found an expert in the area here and he took 10 minutes of looking at me and knew what kind of tear it was. Needless to say it was a chronic tear at that point with all the scar tissue, and I'm a year out of surgery and still have a lot of that wierd pressure pain in my shoulder/upper bicep. Repair was succesful, extremly well done, but because I waited the recovery is a lot longer, and I gotta deal with the scar tissue that causes the pain..