Shoulder/Elbow News

Each year, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons presents the Kappa Delta Awards and the Orthopaedic Research Education Foundation Clinical Research Award for outstanding clinical research on musculoskeletal disease or injury.

Published results showed use of mismatched reverse shoulder arthroplasty components, defined by humeral and glenoid components from different manufacturers, may yield similar clinical outcomes and re-revision rates as matched components.

According to published results, free bone graft transfer and the Latarjet procedure demonstrated clinically similar outcomes for patients with anterior shoulder instability and glenoid bone loss at 5 years.

Since superior labrum lesions were first described in 1985 and the term “SLAP” lesion was coined in 1990, surgeons began to fixate on that region as a pain generator, especially in the overhead athlete population.

The long head of the biceps and its glenoid labral attachment, the biceps labral complex, constitute an integral part of the anatomy optimizing ball-and-socket kinematics and dynamic glenohumeral joint stability in shoulder function.

ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4, by OpenAI, exceeded the proficiency threshold for written questions on the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons shoulder-elbow self-assessment examination, according to published results.

Among patients with type 2 diabetes, use of GLP-1 agonists may increase the risks for adhesive capsulitis and required surgical intervention, such as manipulation under anesthesia, according to published results.

According to published results, a novel opioid-free pathway may provide noninferior pain management compared with an opioid-containing pathway during the perioperative period in patients undergoing orthopedic surgery.

According to published results, patients with a history of preoperative opioid use had inferior outcomes for pain and function in the early postoperative period after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair compared with opioid-naïve patients.