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Orthopedics Today to host Facebook Live event at Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2019
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Orthopedics Today will host a Facebook Live event during the Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2019 Meeting.
Presenters Anthony A. Romeo, MD, Orthopedics Today Chief Medical Editor, and John M. Tokish, MD, Orthopedics Today Section Editor, Arthroscopy, will discuss the topic: Large to massive rotator cuff tears: Options in 2019. They will highlight existing and new techniques, methods and technologies to treat rotator cuff tears such as superior capsular reconstruction.
“The management of massive cuff tears remains controversial,” Romeo told Healio.com/Orthopedics. “Many therapeutic interventions are poorly studied including selection bias, surgeon bias, lack of postoperative imaging, results that do not achieve minimally clinical significant differences and results that provide short follow-up failing to provide enough information to know if this adds value or quality of life for a reasonable period of time. However, this problem confronts orthopedic surgeons who manage shoulder problems on a consistent basis, so clinical algorithms and recommendations for treatment need to be reassessed and modified frequently based on the most recent best-available evidence. Our Facebook Live event will feature John M. Tokish, MD, who will share with us his expert opinion on indications and options available in 2019 to help manage our patients with this difficult problem.”
Tokish added, “The massive irreparable tear remains one of the most challenging clinical conditions for the shoulder surgeon to treat. Unfortunately, there are many approaches in the literature that show good results (rehab, tendon transfer, superior capsular reconstruction, reverse shoulder, etc.), but very little guidance as to how to apply which approach to an individual patient”
The event is to take place on Monday, January 14, during the second break. It will begin at 11:15 a.m. HST or 4:15 p.m. EST. – by Monica Jaramillo and Kristine Houck, ELS
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