Direct active rehabilitation after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty: an international multicentre prospective cohort safety study with 1-year follow up.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To gain insight in the safety of direct active rehabilitation without immobilisation in patients undergoing reverse total shoulder arthroplasty without subscapularis reattachment, measured by the occurrence of complications until 1-year follow up. Next, to explore improvement in shoulder function and in patient-reported outcome measures.

Design

An international multicentre prospective cohort safety study.

Setting

Patients indicated for reverse total shoulder arthroplasty, visiting the orthopaedics outpatient clinic at two hospitals in the Netherlands and one hospital in Curaçao between January 2019 and July 2021, were selected.

Participants

100 patients (68% female, mean age 74±7.0 years) undergoing unilateral primary shoulder replacement were includ

SUBMITTER: Kornuijt A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10124285 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature