Many folks have tears of some degree, more as we age. With a small tear, rehab should help you. Mine was a traumatic tear, over 90%, so they cut it the rest of the way to make it clean for reattachment, and had to do labrum work too. So surgery was no option unless I wanted to live in a sling. If rehab will get you through, that is the way to go. Took a year for me to feel normal again.