Shoulder/Elbow News

By including five Interactive Expert Exchange sessions in the 2020 Congress program, the EFORT Science Committee has built, together with several world-recognized experts, a specific agenda for confirmed specialists and/or senior consultants in various orthopaedic and trauma specialties. Indeed, this particular format of congress sessions allows attendees to sustain or reject a commonly used procedure by extensively discussing all treatments available for a specific medical condition.

DENVER — At the Orthopaedic Trauma Association Annual Meeting, Richard Yoon, MD, spoke about treatment options for proximal humerus fractures, specifically nonoperative fixation and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. He said reverse total shoulder arthroplasty is a promising treatment modality for proximal humerus fractures.

Simple elbow dislocations had no single mechanism-related soft tissue injury pattern, with different grades of soft tissue injury identified, according to published results.

Patients with proximal humeral fractures who underwent locking plate fixation with augmentation of screw tips experienced clinical and radiographic outcomes similar to patients who underwent standard locking plate fixation only, according to published results.

Frail patients may experience an increased risk of early complications and adverse outcomes after total shoulder arthroplasty, according to results.

There was a significant correlation between specific acromial morphology and the direction of glenohumeral instability, according to results.

Published results showed isolated open anterior release of the shoulder reduced posterior joint subluxation and improved passive and active shoulder ranges of motion in patients with brachial plexus birth palsy.

Recently published results showed a significant correlation between off-season duration with elbow pain and morphologic abnormalities of the medial elbow joint in elementary school-aged baseball players.

Inclination of the inferior portion of the native glenoid may be reliably measured with the reverse shoulder arthroplasty angle in patients with rotator cuff tear arthropathy, according to published results.

Although both oblique and transverse incisions for treatment of fractures of the mid-to-outer third of the clavicle had equivalent effects on recovery of shoulder joint function, the oblique incision had several advantages over the transverse incision, according to published results.