TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimizing the management of rotator cuff problems
AU - Pedowitz, Robert A.
AU - Yamaguchi, Ken
AU - Ahmad, Christopher S.
AU - Burks, Robert T.
AU - Flatow, Evan L.
AU - Green, Andrew
AU - Iannotti, Joseph P.
AU - Milleri, Bruce S.
AU - Tashjian, Robert Z.
AU - Watters, III, William C.
AU - Weber, Kristy
AU - Turkelson, Charles M.
AU - Wies, Janet L.
AU - Anderson, Sara
AU - Andre, Justin
AU - Boyer, Kevin
AU - Raymond, Laura
AU - Sluka, Patrick
AU - McGowan, Richard
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - Of the 31 recommendations made by the work group, 19 were determined to be inconclusive because of the absence of definitive evidence. Of the remaining recommendations, four were classified as moderate grade, six as weak, and two as consensus statements of expert opinion. The four moderate-grade recommendations include suggestions that exercise and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs be used to manage rotator cuff symptoms in the absence of a full-thickness tear, that routine acromioplasty is not required at the time of rotator cuff repair, that non-cross-linked, porcine small intestine submucosal xenograft patches not be used to manage rotator cuff tears, and that surgeons can advise patients that workers' compensation status correlates with less favorable outcomes after rotator cuff surgery.
AB - Of the 31 recommendations made by the work group, 19 were determined to be inconclusive because of the absence of definitive evidence. Of the remaining recommendations, four were classified as moderate grade, six as weak, and two as consensus statements of expert opinion. The four moderate-grade recommendations include suggestions that exercise and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs be used to manage rotator cuff symptoms in the absence of a full-thickness tear, that routine acromioplasty is not required at the time of rotator cuff repair, that non-cross-linked, porcine small intestine submucosal xenograft patches not be used to manage rotator cuff tears, and that surgeons can advise patients that workers' compensation status correlates with less favorable outcomes after rotator cuff surgery.
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U2 - 10.5435/00124635-201106000-00007
DO - 10.5435/00124635-201106000-00007
M3 - Article
C2 - 21628648
AN - SCOPUS:79959368324
SN - 1067-151X
VL - 19
SP - 368
EP - 379
JO - Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
JF - Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
IS - 6
ER -