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

Shoulder symptoms led to an average of 9.6 million physician visits in 2015 and 2016 in the United States. The most common ...

A technique for repairing rotator cuff injuries developed by University ... have a reverse shoulder replacement will need a revision surgery in their lifetime, and it's a costly and risky exercise." ...

Only those who fail a conservative approach and have associated rotator cuff or capsule-labral pathology should be considered for surgery.14 24 Surgery is contraindicated in a pure polar III group ...

While on maternity leave, Crowley attended physical therapy sessions with her mother after rotator cuff surgery. "Hazard" zooms in on details from the clinic, from the patient's perspective.

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 ...