The three faces of pyrocarbon shoulder arthroplasty

Sunday, October 26, 2025 10:09 AM

 I suspect that few of you have seen the 1957 Oscar Award winning movie the three faces of Eve, based on the true story of a woman with three distinct personalities.We now have three faces of pyrocarbon shoulder arthroplasty, ...

Napoleon and how to use graphics effectively - a lesson from 1869. NB: post ends with cannon fire.

Saturday, October 25, 2025 11:27 PM

 Not infrequently we see a graphic like this that consumes a huge amount of space in comparison to a simple sentence: "45% of the patients were male and 55% female". That picture is surely not worth 1,000 words.By contrast in ...

When should we consider anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty in patients under 50 years of age?

Friday, October 24, 2025 8:42 PM

It is well recognized that patients under the age of 50 often have risk factors for inferior clinical outcomes from shoulder arthroplasty: (1) more complex arthritis (avascular necrosis, capsulorrhaphy arthropathy, chondrolysis, rheumatoid ...

Reverse total shoulder stability and instability - the role of concavity compression

Thursday, October 23, 2025 9:53 PM

As is the case for the normal shoulder and the anatomic total shoulder, the stability of the reverse total shoulder (rTSA) depends on concavity compression. In the rTSA the concavity of the humeral liner is compressed onto the glenosphere ...