Arthroscopic Bankart Repair Versus Open Bristow-Latarjet for Shoulder Instability: A Matched-Pair Multicenter Study Focused on Return to Sport.

Background: The arthroscopic Bankart repair and open Bristow-Latarjet procedure are the 2 most commonly used techniques to treat recurrent shoulder instability.

Purpose: To compare in a case control-matched manner the 2 techniques, with particular emphasis on return to sport after surgery.

Study Design: Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3.

Validity and reliability of the SPORTS score for shoulder instability.

Purpose: athletes affected by shoulder instability cannot be judged solely according to the criteria used for non-athletes. In order to improve the assessment of shoulder instability surgery outcomes, the SPORTS score was tested in a cohort of athletes.

Methods: ninety-eight athletes at an average follow-up of 4.

Glenohumeral instability and rotator cuff tear.

The prevalence of rotator cuff tears after traumatic dislocation increases with advancing age, a likely consequence of the age-associated deterioration of the structure and mechanical properties of the tendons of the rotator cuff. These are the effective stabilizers of the glenohumeral joint, compressing the humeral head in the 3-dimensional concavity of the glenohumeral joint. It is impossible to establish whether a lesion of the capsular-labrum complex or of the rotator cuff causes or follows a dislocation, regardless of whether it is anterior or posterior.

Instability and rotator cuff tear.

Prevalence of rotator cuff tears after traumatic dislocation increases with advancing age, as a consequence of the age-associated deterioration of structures and mechanical properties of the tendons of the rotator cuff. These act as effective stabilizers of the joint, compressing the humeral head in the three-dimensional concavity of the glenoid. It is impossible to establish whether a lesion of the capsulo-labrum complex or of the rotator cuff causes or follows a dislocation, regardless of whether it is anterior or posterior.

Patient-Perceived Quality of Life after Total Hip Arthroplasty: Elective versus Traumatological Surgery.

Purpose. The aim was to evaluate and compare patient's health-related quality of life after THA for osteoarthritis and femoral neck fracture. The postoperative outcome was retrospectively evaluated in patients who underwent THA with an intracapsular femoral neck fracture (Group A) or with an hip osteoarthritis (Group B).

Importance of neurological evaluation before reverse shoulder arthroplasty in patients with previous poliomyelitis.

We present a case report of a patient, affected by post-polio syndrome and cuff tear arthropathy of his right shoulder, who underwent reverse shoulder arthroplasty. A previous radial deficiency was unmasked in the post-operative follow-up, with passive elbow bending when the forearm was put in an antigravitational position. A precise preoperative neurological evaluation is mandatory in shoulder replacement in order to estimate the functional outcome after surgery.