Background: There is a high demand for shoulder/elbow experience among hand-fellowship trainees due to theperception that this exposure will improve their professional “marketability” in a subspecialty they perceive as havinghigher compensation.Methods: Using Medicare data, we investigated the most common surgeries from these fields and determinedwhich have the highest c...

1 – Coordinator of the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Group, Bahia Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology (INSBOT – Instituto Baiano de Ortopedia e Traumatologia); Orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital Português da Bahia 2 – Head of the Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Group, ORTOPED Fracture Clinic; Orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital Português da Bahia 3 – Medical Assistant, Shoulder and Elbow Surgery G...

We developed a questionnaire to assess patient-reported outcome after surgery of the elbow from interviews with patients. Initially, 17 possible items with five response options were included. A prospective study of 104 patients (107 elbow operations) was carried out to analyse the underlying factor structure, dimensionality, internal and test-retest reliability, construct validity and responsi...

INTRODUCTION Upper brachial plexus injury in adults causes loss of elbow fl exion; when the primary nerve surgery has failed or the patient seeks treatment after 12 months of injury and pedicled muscle transfers are required. Most commonly, the latissimus dorsi or the Steindler flexorplasty is used. MATERIAL AND METHODS We have transferred one of the heads of triceps muscle to restore the elb...

OBJECTIVES To examine and contrast the ability of patient-reported and clinician-rated measures, reflecting different levels of specificity, to detect differences in outcomes between patients with and without rheumatoid arthritis (RA), at 6 months following elbow surgery. METHODS One hundred and four consecutive patients/elbows self-completed the Oxford Elbow Score (OES), Disabilities of the ...

Arthroscopy of the elbow was first described by Burman in 1931. In this first article about arthroscopy of the elbow in the journal of bone and joint surgery, he concluded that the elbow joint was not suitable for arthroscopy; the joint was too small and the neurovascular structures in the anterior compartment of the elbow were close. In 1932 he revised his original article with some technical ...

INTRODUCTION We retrospectively reviewed the results of total elbow arthroplasty in patients with rheumatoid arthritis of the elbow followed for a minimum of two years. METHODS Between September 1999 and March 2001, seven patients with rheumatoid arthritis of the elbow were treated with total elbow arthroplasty using the semi-constrained Coonrad-Morrey elbow replacement prostheses. One patien...

BACKGROUND Loss of elbow flexion due to traumatic palsy of the brachial plexus represents a major functional handicap.Then, the first goal in the treatment of the flail arm is to restore the elbow flexion by primary direct nerve surgery or secondary reconstructive surgery. There are various methods to restore elbow flexion which are well documented in the medical literature but the most known a...

BACKGROUND Elbow surgery is shared by several subspecialties. We were curious about the most common elbow surgeries and their corresponding diagnoses in the United States. METHODS We used the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) and the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS) data gathered in 2006-databases that together provide an estimate of all inpatient and ambulatory surgical c...