Saturday, June 20, 2020

Shoulder arthroplasty for osteoarthritis: Long stem vs short stem? Anatomic or reverse total shoulder?

We are most appreciative of the Australian Orthopaedic Association and its publication of their joint replacement registry (see this link). This invaluable resource presents population-based data that cannot be obtained from case reports.  We suspect that few surgeons outside of Australia visit this site

A recent study of the data on shoulder arthroplasty for osteoarthritis discovered what may be a fundamental attribution error, in which the value of different types of arthroplasty (long vs short stem, anatomic vs reverse) may be attributed to one factor while they are more likely due to another. Please see this link.

Spoiler alert: what type of arthroplasty has a 10 year revision rate <5%?


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To see a YouTube of on how we do total shoulder arthroplasty, click on this link.

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To see our new series of youtube videos on important shoulder surgeries and how they are done, click here.

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