This blog is expanding in two dimensions!

 Dear Reader

As you know up to this point, this blog has focused on shoulder arthritis and shoulder joint replacement. In order to better serve our educational mission, we will be expanding the topics covered on the blog to include rotator cuff tears, shoulder and elbow dislocations, shoulder and elbow fractures, and elbow arthritis.

We are also expanding the authorship of posts on the blog to include each of the fellowship-trained shoulder and elbow faculty at the University of Washington Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine:

Stay tuned!

We are encouraged that this blog is visited by individuals from at least 100 different countries, including Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Egypt, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Herzegovina, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Nambia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yemen.

It is really nice to have you with us, many of you from places far far away from our home in Seattle.

You can support cutting edge shoulder education that is leading to better care for patients with shoulder problems, click on this link.

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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).

The Shoulder Blog - over 2 million visits from over 100 countries.

The Shoulder Blog just had its 11th birthday. 

It is receiving over 8,500 visits per month from over 100 countries around the world, including Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Egypt, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Herzegovina, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Nambia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yemen.

         

Through this blog we are able to share content free of commercial conflict of interest with you even though you may live far away from our home in Seattle.

So you can see what other visitors are reading, the top of each page shows the 10 most visited sites of the week.

There are over 3,000 posts. You can look for the content of interest to you using the search box to the right.

You can 

Follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/shoulderarth

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Welcome!

The Shoulder Blog

The ShoulderBlog provides analysis and commentary on current literature, cases, concepts, conditions, and care related to patients with shoulder problems.

The top of the page lists the most commonly visited blog posts for the current week, updated daily. 

The number of blog posts is now approaching 3,000. These can be searched using the search box to the right.

The right side of the page also provides a translator, and other commonly accessed information. Here you can also see the number of page-views to the blog over its ten year history. Currently, there are over 10,000 views per month.

The ShoulderBlog is visited by individuals from 100 different countries, including Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Egypt, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Herzegovina, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Nambia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yemen.

 

 It is really nice to have you visit from places near and far away from Seattle.

                

Keep in touch!

Follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/shoulderarth

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Who's looking at the Shoulder Arthritis Blog?

This blog now has 2262 posts. It receives over 17,000 page views per month. While most come from the US, we welcome the many visitors from Asia, Europe, Canada, Australia and other countries. Below are some of the statistics from last month.

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We have a new set of shoulder youtubes about the shoulder, check them out at this link.

Be sure to visit "Ream and Run - the state of the art" regarding this radically conservative approach to shoulder arthritis at this link and this link

Use the "Search" box to the right to find other topics of interest to you.

How you can support progress in shoulder surgery

You may be interested in some of our most visited web pages  arthritis, total shoulder, ream and run, reverse total shoulder, CTA arthroplasty, and rotator cuff surgery as well as the 'ream and run essentials'

What if I want to read the blog in a language other than English?

One of the nice features of this blog is that it can translate the content into any of over 70 different languages, from Afrikaans to Zulu:

To see the content in one of these languages, simply click "Translate" in the box to the right as shown marked by *** below

For example, if you select Spanish, this is what you see:

Or if you pick Chinese (simplified):

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To see other similar posts, click on the label of interest below.

Consultation for those who live a distance away from Seattle.

To see the topics covered in this Blog, click here

Use the "Search" box to the right to find other topics of interest to you.

You may be interested in some of our most visited web pages including:shoulder arthritis, total shoulder, ream and run, reverse total shoulder, CTA arthroplasty, and rotator cuff surgery as well as the 'ream and run essentials'

See from which cities our patients come.

See the countries from which our readers come on this post.

To see other similar posts, click on the label of interest below.

Shoulder arthritis blog - statistics

Some of our readers have asked to see some of the statistics on where pages are viewed and which are viewed the most often.
For those interested, here are the stats from this week. To see the images in greater detail, just click on them.

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To see the table of contents of this Blog with links, click here

Use the "Search" box to the right to find other topics of interest to you.

You may be interested in some of our most visited web pages including:shoulder arthritis, total shoulder, ream and run, reverse total shoulder, CTA arthroplasty, and rotator cuff surgery as well as the 'ream and run essentials'


See from which cities our patients come.


See the countries from which our readers come on this post.

Celebrating > 250,000 page views.

Dear Readers
Thanks to your interest, we are over 1/4 million page views.
To celebrate, here are a few pictures from our 'neighborhood'. Enjoy.

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To see the table of contents of this Blog with links, click here

Use the "Search" box to the right to find other topics of interest to you.

You may be interested in some of our most visited web pages including:shoulder arthritis, total shoulder, ream and run, reverse total shoulder, CTA arthroplasty, and rotator cuff surgery as well as the 'ream and run essentials'


See from which cities our patients come.


See the countries from which our readers come on this post.

7000 page views/month from round the world

It is gratifying to see the growth in number and breadth of our readership. While most of our readers are from the U.S., the statistics from last month show interest from all over:

You can see the over 100 countries from which readers come here.

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Use the "Search" box to the right to find other topics of interest to you.

You may be interested in some of our most visited web pages including:shoulder arthritis, total shoulder, ream and run, reverse total shoulder, CTA arthroplasty, and rotator cuff surgery as well as the 'ream and run essentials'


See from which cities our patients come.


See the countries from which our readers come on this post.

shoulder arthritis and rotator cuff tears - blog at 2 years and 200,000 pageviews

Greetings readers.

This blog is now two years old and has passed the 200,000 page view milestone.

It is intended to be a living, dynamic resource dedicated to all those interested in shoulder arthritis and cuff tears. It will provide basic information on shoulder arthritis and it will provide updates on recent important published articles related to the topic of shoulder arthritis and rotator cuff tears. In terms of disclosure, it is important to note that we have no relationships with any manufacturers of any orthopaedic products and endeavor to provide an unbiased view of the published evidence along with illustrative cases from our own practice. 

The five posts highlighted at the top of each page show the most visited posts for the past week, so you can see what other folks are viewing.

You can use the "Topics" feature at upper right to finding topics of interest or the "Search This Blog" function to find specific content. If you would like to view the blog in a language other than English, please use the "Translate" function.

You may be interested in some of our most visited web pages including:shoulder arthritis, total shoulder, ream and run, reverse total shoulder, CTA arthroplasty, and rotator cuff surgery as well as the 'ream and run essentials'


See from which cities our patients come.


See the countries from which our readers come on this post.

Throughout this blog you will find links that are indicated like this - these links take you to related content.

You should be aware of our colleagues at the Arthritis Foundation who do so much to support individuals who live with arthritis!

Steve Lippitt, my good friend in Akron, has provided the art work for almost all the figures in this blog, including the one at the bottom indicating (cleverly) the safe side and the 'suicide' for shoulder surgery.

Best wishes and thanks for your visit

rick matsen

Shoulder arthritis and rotator cuff - translate!

For many of our readers, English is not the first language.  If this is the case for you, or if you enjoy exercising your language skills, use the Translate button to the right. Amazing how well and how fast it works!

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Use the "Search" box to the right to find other topics of interest to you.

You may be interested in some of our most visited web pages including:shoulder arthritis, total shoulder, ream and run, reverse total shoulder, CTA arthroplasty,  and rotator cuff surgery.

See from which cities our patients come.

See the countries from which our readers come on this post.

Shoulder arthritis and rotator cuff blog - one year anniversary.

Dear Readers from Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bosnia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Herzegovina, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Nambia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela, Vietnam, and Yemen

Today marks the one year anniversary of this blog. Readership is now up to 8000 page views per month.

Thanks to all who have been following us along.

If there are shoulder and elbow topics you believe need more attention on our blog, drop me an email at matsen@uw.edu.

Best wishes

Frederick A. Matsen III, MD
Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
University of Washington Medical Center
1959 NE Pacific Street, Box 356500
Seattle, WA 98195-6500

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Use the "Search the Blog" box to the right to find other topics of interest to you.

You may be interested in some of our most visited web pages including: shoulder arthritis, total shoulder, ream and run, reverse total shoulder, CTA arthroplasty, and rotator cuff surgery.

See the countries from which our readers come on this post.

Recognition of the work linking pain pumps to Chondrolysis by the JBJS

A bit of good news as we go into the New Year.

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery has placed our article pointing to the causal relationship between the use of intra articular pain pumps to glenohumeral chondrolysis among the top four articles for 2011.

In spite of this and other evidence-based peer-reviewed publications, some remain seemingly unable to recognize this cause of glenohumeral chondrolysis: "We don't know if it's because of the surgery, during the surgery, something that happens after the surgery, we just don't know without more study," said Dr. Maryam Navaie, CEO of Advance Health Solutions. The observation that other causes of chondrolysis have been reported does not detract from the well documented causational effect of local anesthetics infused after arthroscopic surgery using a pain pump on glenohumeral chondrolysis. A parallel: the observation that other causes of cancer have been reported does not detract from the well documented causational effect of cigarette smoking on lung cancer.

Hopefully, the evidence is now clear.

As the year closes, we express our gratitude to the individuals from over 70 countries who have grown this blog to 8000 page views per month. We are looking forward to an exciting 2012.

Best wishes for health and happiness in the New Year!
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Use the "Search the Blog" box to the right to find other topics of interest to you.

You may be interested in some of our most visited web pages including: shoulder arthritis, total shoulder, ream and run, reverse total shoulder, CTA arthroplasty, and rotator cuff surgery.

See the countries from which our readers come on this post.

Shoulder arthritis and rotator cuff blog: who's visiting and what pages are they reading?

We've been asked to share some of the statistics regarding the blog. 

The most commonly visited posts for the last month are shown in the figure below (click on it for a magnified view):

If you'd like to check out any of these posts, use the 'table of contents' to the right to find the blog from the date of interest.

The countries of the most common visitors are shown in the figure below (click on it for a magnified view):

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You might like to see a complete list of the countries from where our visitors come.

Use the "Search the Blog" box to the right to find other topics of interest to you.

You may be interested in some of our most visited web pages including: shoulder arthritis, total shoulder, ream and run, reverse total shoulder, CTA arthroplasty, revision surgery for failed shoulder joint replacement, rotator cuff disease, and rotator cuff surgery.

You may also be interested in our information about quadriceps sparing or 'mini' total knee replacement or about hip replacement arthroplasty.