According to published results, patients with a history of preoperative opioid use had inferior outcomes for pain and ...

Nonoperative treatment, such physical therapy, is the typical approach to treating rotator-cuff tears. However, surgery is considered in certain patients whose rotator-cuff tears don't resolve with ...

Dr. Will Van der Reis, orthopedic surgery and sports medicine physician at the Queen’s Medical Center-West O’ahu explained that the rotator cuff consists of two big groups of muscles in the shoulder.

"The traditional repair technique involved an open operation where the rotator cuff tendon is secured into a bone trench using sutures and with the move to performing repairs with arthroscopy ...

Pearl, MD, spoke about the use of lower trapezius transfer for patients with irreparable rotator cuff tears and no active external rotation. “It’s not a good operation for pain or if they have ...

The Global Arthroscopy Devices Market, valued at approximately USD 34.6 billion in 2022, is anticipated to grow at a healthy CAGR of more than 8.5% during the forecast period 2023-2030. Arthroscopy ...

The clinical community has expressed a need to evaluate the use of surgery for rotator cuff tears, particularly for ... Asia and five were from Europe. Most used arthroscopic technique. For patients ...

Background. Although arthroscopy of upper extremity joints was initially a diagnostic tool, it is increasingly used for therapeutic interventions. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are ...

Burlington, Massachusetts-based Flexion Therapeutics, Inc. has begun a study of an extended release corticosteroid for shoulder osteoarthritis (OA) and adhesive capsulitis (AC) trial. In addition, the ...

Arthroscopic surgery for Osteoarthritis (OA) knee is not a new concept. In fact, in the past 50 years or so, before the widespread acceptance of Total Knee Replacement (TKR), Arthroscopic surgery, ...