In vivo shoulder kinematic changes and rotator cuff healing after surgical repair of large-to-massive rotator cuff tears
Eiji Tashiro, Naoya Kozono, Hidehiko Higaki, Takeshi Shimoto, Yasuharu Nakashima · 2024
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Description
After surgeons repair a large rotator cuff tear, does the shoulder move like a healthy one again? Eiji Tashiro and co-authors measured shoulder motion in ten patients before and one year after repair, using an image-registration technique that tracks the bones during arm raising. They compared the patients with ten healthy controls.
Before surgery the shoulder blade tilted too far forward; after repair that tilt matched controls, though the blade's backward swing during raising grew even larger than normal. The ball of the joint, which had ridden too high, settled back toward its proper place, and the joint space widened. That postoperative blade motion tracked with the gap under the acromion and with how well the cuff had healed, while pain and function scores improved regardless. The authors read the pattern as normalized stability with a compensating blade strategy.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Eiji Tashiro, Naoya Kozono, Hidehiko Higaki, Takeshi Shimoto, Yasuharu Nakashima |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |