Wednesday, June 30, 2021

The power of the "truth" view in the detection of early shoulder arthritis

 A young man presented with pain and stiffness after prior procedures on his clavicle, biceps, and subscapularis.

His examination confirmed mild-moderate stiffness of his glenohumeral joint.

His Grashey view was not remarkable


However, his axillary "truth" view revealed decentering of the humeral head on the glenoid and moderate glenohumeral osteoarthritis.

Our thoughts on how to get the most information out of three simple plain films is shown in 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).
The total shoulder arthroplasty (see this link).
The ream and run technique is shown in 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).