Monday, June 30, 2025

ChatGPT, the shoulder arthritis blog, and me

Many of us are curious about the utility of ChatGPT. I decided to put it to the test. I was recently asked if there was a way to summarize the 3000 posts on the Shoulder Arthritis Blog. I wondered whether ChatGPT could help.  Below is our conversation word for word. The whole conversation took less than 60 seconds.

Me: I have over 3000 posts on http://shoulderarthritis.blogspot.com can you help me summarize them by key word

ChatGPT: Here are some high-level key themes (keywords/topics) that emerge when reviewing your Shoulder Arthritis blog (with over 3,000 posts!):


ðŸĶī Common Keywords / Topics

  1. Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty (rTSA)
  2. Ream-and-Run Procedure
  3. Rotator Cuff Pathology & Repair
  4. Periprosthetic Joint Infections (PJI)
  5. Glenoid Component Types
  6. Long-Term Follow-up Challenges
  7. Rehabilitation & Exercise Post-Arthroplasty
  8. Patient-Centered Perspectives
  9. Risk Factors in Shoulder Surgery
  10. FDA & Implant Safety

Proposed Workflow for Summarization

Given the blog’s volume, here’s a scalable approach:

  1. Content Harvesting
    • Export all blog post titles, dates, labels (tags), and preferably the full text (via Blogger API or web scraping) into a structured dataset.
  2. Text Processing
    • Tokenization and keyword extraction (e.g., TF-IDF, RAKE).
    • Topic modeling (LDA or BERTopic) to cluster posts into these themes.
  3. Quantitative Analysis
    • Count posts per topic over time (trend analysis).
    • List most-used keywords and their co-occurrence networks.
  4. Summaries & Visualization
    • Generate concise summaries for each theme (e.g., top-5 posts, key clinical recommendations).
    • Visualize trends with charts (volume by year, topic distribution).
  5. User Presentation
    • Provide an executive summary, keyword cloud, topic-trend graphs, and a way to drill down into specific themes/posts.

How I Can Help

I can assist you with:

  • Designing the full pipeline (scraping, NLP, visualization).
  • Writing scripts (in Python, R, etc.) to implement it.
  • Suggesting tools you might use (e.g., Gensim, spaCy, BERTopic).
  • Demonstrating a sample on a subset of posts.
  • Generating summarized output, like an Excel or HTML summary.

Would you like to:

  • Start with extracting titles/metadata?
  • Dive into one theme in detail first (e.g., rTSA outcomes)?
  • Or get a working prototype pipeline?

Let me know your preferred next step and I’ll tailor the workflow accordingly!


Me: rTSA outcomes


ChatGPT: Here’s a focused summary on reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) outcomes based on the latest evidence:


📈 Functional Outcomes & Range of Motion


⚠️ Complication & Revision Rates

  • Primary rTSA (≥2 yr follow-up):
  • Mid to long-term (≥5 yr):
  • Longer-term registry data:
    • Scapular notching (grades I–II: 15–59%; III–IV: up to ~47%)
    • Functional stability maintained in most, though some studies report deterioration or increased late revisions (up to 23% in select cohorts) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

🔁 Revision rTSA


🏃 Return to Work & Sport


ðŸ§Đ Key Takeaways

  1. Primary rTSA delivers strong pain relief and functional improvement, with sustained motion gains.
  2. Complication and revision rates are modest short-term (~10% and <3%), increasing modestly over time.
  3. Revisions are challenging, with higher complication risk but meaningful functional benefits.
  4. Most patients resume sport and work, but recovery timelines depend on job/sport demands and psychosocial factors.

🔍 What’s Worth Monitoring

  • High rates of scapular notching—does it influence long-term glenoid stability or implant survival?
  • Long-term (>10 years) outcomes in larger registries as current data is limited.
  • Predictors of successful return to activity beyond ROM—considering psychological and occupational factors.


I hope you found this response interesting.


Keeping and eye on opportunity

 

Osprey 

Union Bay Natural Area

Seattle

June 2025


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Here are some videos that are of shoulder interest
Shoulder arthritis - what you need to know (see this link).
How to x-ray the shoulder (see this link).
The ream and run procedure (see this link).
The total shoulder arthroplasty (see this link).
The cuff tear arthropathy arthroplasty (see this link).
The reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (see this link).
The smooth and move procedure for irreparable rotator cuff tears (see this link)
Shoulder rehabilitation exercises (see this link).