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The sources for this annual update on shoulder and elbow surgery were presentations and symposia at meetings of The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (Specialty Day, February 26, 2005, Washington, DC), the Arthroscopy Association of North America (Specialty Day, February 26, 2005, Washington, DC; Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting, May 12-15, 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and Twenty-third Fall Course, December 2-4, 2004, Palm Desert, California), the American Academy of ...

I feel that the cause of your pain is a condition called Adhesive Capsulitis or "Frozen Shoulder." This is a common shoulder problem that affects thousands of people every year. We do not know the cause of frozen shoulder. It does not seem to result from an injury. While some people relate the onset of their pain to an injury or illness, many more say the problem began "out of the blue," without any cause. Pain may start suddenly or begin slowly. Pain and stiffness in the ...

Glenoid loosening is one reason for failure of tota shoulder arthroplasty. Several factors, including radiographic lucency, have been shown to be associated with glenoid loosening. The purpose of this study was to assess the correlation between glenoid design and immediate radiographic lucency in a prospective randomized clinical trial.

Until recently, few investigators challenged the pre-vailing medical view of health. Medicine perceived health as an observable, biologic fact, and the goal of medical assessment was to objectively evaluate the body’s status. Because patient reports of health status are subjective, they were considered unreliable and unscientific. The use of self-reports to evaluate health and health outcomes, however, has burgeoned in the last 10 to 20 years, as has the authority assigned to patients’ evaluatio

Zuckerman discussed the early work on cartilage-derived morphogenetic protein-2 (CDMP-2). Rat tendon repairs that had been treated with CDMP-2 were stronger than untreated repairs at four weeks. Dines discussed his initial investigations involving platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1). Studies at his laboratory demon-strated that cultured rat fibroblasts could be transduced with the genes from the growth factors and then seeded onto a polymer scaffold and

In a 5-year study, a self-report measure of shoulder function—the Flexilevel Scale of Shoulder Function (FLEX-SF)—was developed by use of item response the-ory. A large pool of candidate items (N
68) was developed. A questionnaire that included the 68 items, another scale of shoulder function, and clinical and demographic questions were administered to 400 per-sons with shoulder complaints. Patients’ responses to the 68 items were calibrated by use of Andrich’s rat-ing scale model. Th

We performed a prospective, randomized study to determine whether arthroscopic subacromial decompression changes the outcome of rotator cuff repair. We performed a power analysis to ensure statistical validity. Patients scheduled for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair were randomized to cuff repair with arthroscopic subacromial decompression (group 1) or without it (group 2).

Objectives: This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship among patient outcome expectancies, perceived shoulder function changes, and perceptions of expectancy fulfillment.

The sources for this annual update on shoulder and elbow surgery were presentations and symposia at meetings of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (Specialty Day, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 8, 2003), the Arthroscopy Association of North America

The sources for this annual update on shoulder and elbow surgery were presentations and symposia at meetings of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine

Study Design: A prospective unblinded randomized clinical trial. Objectives: To compare the effectiveness of 2 types of home program instruction, videotape versus personal instruction by a physical therapist, on subjective outcomes and exercise compliance following arthroscopic repair of a full-thickness rotator cuff tear.

Objective: The objective of the study was to compare interitem consistency and test-retest reliability by surgical status (postoperative versus nonoperative) and to evaluate the effect of surgical status in the prediction of retest scores. Background: Patients and healthcare providers evaluate shoulder status based on self-evaluations of pain and disability. Shoulder outcome measures have been developed that include self-reports, but the properties of these measures have not been assessed by sur

BACKGROUND. Existing measures of selfreported shoulder function fail to measure effectively the full range of shoulder functioning. The classic approach for improving the reliability of a scale is adding items, but a scale with a substantial number of items imposes a large response burden on participants.

The sources for this article were presentations and symposia at meetings of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (Specialty Day, San Francisco, California, March 2001), the Arthroscopy Association of North America (Specialty Day, San Francisco, California, March 2001; Twentieth Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, April 2001; and Nineteenth Fall Course, Palm Desert, California, November 2000), the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (Sixtyeighth Annual Meeting, San Francisco

ABSTRACT. Cook KF, Gartsman GM, Roddey TS, Olson SL. The measurement level and trait-specific reliability of 4 scales of shoulder functioning: an empiric investigation. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001;82:1558-65. Objective: To evaluate 4 scales of shoulder function with respect to (1) their precision at different levels of shoulder function and (2) the measurement level of their raw scores (interval vs ordinal).

Purpose: We present the results of a prospective study evaluating arthroscopic technique in repairing multidirectional glenohumeral instability. Type of Study: Case series. Methods: The 47 patient study group consisted of 26 men and 21 women. Inclusion criteria were multidirectional glenohumeral instability diagnosed on physical examination and at arthroscopy. Exclusion criteria were unidirectional anterior or posterior instability and prior instability operation.

This investigation presents the results of arthroscopic repair of bidirectional (inferior with either an anterior or a posterior component) glenohumeral instability in 54 patients with 2- year minimum follow-up. The study group consisted of 43 males and 11 females. The average age at the time of operation was 32 years (range, 15-55 years); the average interval from operation to final evaluation was 34 months (range, 26-63 months).

The purpose of this update on shoulder surgery is to discuss, in summary fashion, topics presented at selected orthopaedic meetings during the time-period of August 1999 to July 2000. Sources for this article were presentations and symposia at meetings of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine

Background and Purpose. Shoulder scales are often used to evaluate treatment efficacy, yet little is known about the psychometric properties of these scales. Only one scale has undergone psychometric scrutiny: the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI). This study compared 2 shoulder measures—the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) Shoulder Scale and the Simple Shoulder Test (SST)—with the SPADI. Subjects. One hundred ninety-two patients with shoulder disorders were recruited from on

Summary: Biceps tenodesis is indicated for partial biceps tendon tears or biceps tendon subluxation. We present our technique for arthroscopic biceps tenodesis. KeyWords: Arthroscopic biceps tenodesis.