Latest Rotator cuff tear Stories
Even if tears recur, patients with rotator cuff repair surgery had long-term benefits, U.S. researchers said. Researchers report that patients had less pain and more function than they did before surgery -- even when recurrent defects occurred over time. The researchers also found the recurrent tears grew in size, but remained painless and did not affect function. None of the patients had needed further treatment or surgery and none experienced any persistent shoulder pain. The study,...
Regional Shoulder Patients Benefit from Surgeon's Commitment to Active Listening CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Adena Health System orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Brian Cohen specializes in cutting-edge shoulder procedures including everything from a 45-minute technique called shoulder resurfacing to a reversed shoulder replacement that relieves pain, restores shoulder function and improves range of motion. He is also adept at the practice of active listening and dedicated to building...
LAS VEGAS, Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons: Hip Replacement (http://www3.aaos.org/education/anmeet/anmt2009/poster/poster.cfm?Pevent=P064) Hip Resurfacing Disappoints Those Who Expect a "Bionic" Hip Replacement Using a common mechanism to score activity levels after hip surgery, researchers found that the majority of patients who underwent a procedure to resurface arthritic hip bones consented to surgery...
Regional Shoulder Patients Benefit from Surgeon's Commitment to Active Listening ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Matthew Tomaino specializes in cutting-edge shoulder procedures including everything from a 45-minute technique called shoulder resurfacing to a reversed shoulder replacement that relieves pain, restores shoulder function and improves range of motion. He is also adept at the practice of active listening and dedicated to building the doctor-patient...
Regulatory News: Artimplant (STO:ARTIB) has agreed with Tulsa Bone & Joint Associates, Tulsa, Oklahoma to execute a clinical study on patients with soft tissue injuries in the rotator cuff. The study comprises 25 patients with one year follow up and is estimated to be completed the first quarter of 2010. Dr. Thomas Marberry has operated on their first patient with Artelon(R) Tissue Reinforcement. Dr. Thomas Marberry says; "Tears of the rotator cuff tendons are one of the most...
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My sister, who is only 54, has been diagnosed with macular degeneration in both eyes - the dry kind. We have been unable to find anything about it. We did find that the dry kind is the worse kind, and that laser treatments don't work for it. Is this true? She is on a drug called Vitalux and must take it every day. - B.T. ANSWER: The retina is the backmost layer of the eye. The retina converts visual images coming into the eye into electric signals that are transmitted to...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld underwent successful elective surgery to repair a shoulder injury described as "an old athletic injury" at a military hospital on Tuesday, the Pentagon said. Rumsfeld, 74, underwent arthroscopic surgery lasting less than two hours to fix a torn rotator cuff in his left shoulder, a relatively common sports injury, said Pentagon press secretary Eric Ruff. "He's fine. He's recovering," Ruff said, adding that the procedure had...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Deep heat treatment can help relieve shoulder pain due to inflammation or tearing of rotator cuff tendon, a new study confirms. There is currently no agreed-upon treatment for patients with inflammation or tears in the tendons that make up the rotator cuff of the shoulder, Dr. Nicola Maffulli of Keele University School of Medicine in Stoke on Trent, England and colleagues write. Hyperthermia, in which the surface of the skin is kept cool while tissues deep...
