Nobody with Shoulder Arthritis Comes In Asking For An ASES score of 80...Guess What They Do Ask For

Sunday, August 23, 2026 7:40 PM

Part One — The question1. What patients actually askPatient-reported outcomes are often reported as a single number — ASES, SANE, VAS, SAS. In fifty plus years of practice I have never had a patient with shoulder arthritis ask whether ...

Recent Reports about the Reverse Total Shoulder — What Can We Learn from Them?

Saturday, August 15, 2026 4:47 PM

PART I — THE SHORT VERSIONNine papers on the reverse total shoulder arthroplasty came across the desk in the past few weeks. Eight of them measured something other than what the patient felt about their result from the surgery. Only ...

All the failures we cannot see

Friday, August 14, 2026 10:46 AM

What is a failure?We often define failure of an arthroplasty as a revision. It is evident, however, that the lack of a revision does not indicate that the patient has had a successful outcome. The lack of a revision simply indicates that ...

What Are the Biggest Problems in Treating Shoulder Arthritis Today?

Saturday, August 8, 2026 11:00 PM

A few of us were talking recently about what information we need to improve our care of patients with shoulder arthritis. The conversation began as a list of unanswered clinical questions and turned into a list of unanswered methodological ...