Since, on average, patients having the ream and run live over 500 miles from our center, routine office visits are impractical for them. Because patients mail or email their results to us, we have been able to keep close tabs on their recovery using the Simple Shoulder Test.
The full article was recently published in the JBJS and discussed in this post.
This weekend I received a nice email and video from a young man who, when we first met a year ago, was on major pain medications because of a severely arthritic and painful shoulder that prevented most activities.
His SST was only three and his X=rays showed a Walch B2 glenoid.
Knowing it was going to be a long hard road. He elected to have a ream and run.
He has been incredibly faithful with not only with his shoulder exercise program, but also with his aerobic fitness. He now takes no pain medications. His SST is now 7. If we look at the graph above, we can see that his improvement is exactly parallel to the heavy black line (the average), it's just that he started further down on the scale. This give us confidence that he will continue to progress upward over the next year.
His one year films are shown below, demonstrating a single glenoid concavity and a stable shoulder. I'm very proud of his effort!
Did you note the use of the eccentric humeral head to provide posterior stability? See also this post.
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