J Shoulder Elbow Surg1 Oct 2026
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Kuhn JEJ, Mallon WJ
Whitten SVW, Jones M, Plemmons MD, et al
Although knee post-traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) has been associated with altered loading, how weight-bearing (WB) activities should be modulated post-injury to preserve knee health remains…
Maffulli N, Migliorini F
Callaghan MJ, Felson DT, Holden MA, et al
To explore agreement between self-report and objectively measured adherence to brace wearing by patients with knee osteoarthritis. A single-arm observational analysis nested within the PROP OA…
Maki S, Shiratani Y, Orita S, et al
Herman PM, Mann S, DeBar LL
Liang J, Papadaki A, Alderson J, et al
Stratification of therapeutic responses may help identify efficacious therapies for osteoarthritis (OA). In the PROMOTE randomised trial, participants with elevated baseline high-sensitivity…
Golightly YM, Sheree SS, Allen KD
To update and extend a prior 2022 synthesis of osteoarthritis (OA) epidemiology with a focus on prevalence, incidence, and progression and risk factors of OA. This narrative review was conducted by…
Smadi Z, Abboud JA
Weber F, Kloek CJJ, Neumann S, et al
To evaluate the effectiveness of a twelve-month smartphone-assisted physiotherapy (SmArt-E) intervention versus usual care in hip and/or knee osteoarthritis (OA), and to assess usability and patient…
Mohan K, Imam MA, Narvani AA
Torrens C, González-García C, Díez-Izquierdo M, et al
Marth AA, Liu F, Pan E, et al
To develop and validate a deep learning (DL)-based model for automatic quantification of knee effusion-synovitis volume (ESV) on MRI, assess correlations of ESV with semiquantitative…
Giuffredi G, Gisbert M, Filas KV, et al
Articular cartilage has a specialised extracellular matrix that provides tensile strength and resistance to compression, but repair capacity is limited. Matrix remodelling during growth is essential…
Yuan S, Liu X, Bracken K, et al
Many individuals use complementary medicine therapies for osteoarthritis, despite limited scientific supporting evidence. These therapies have demonstrated anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, and…
Garcia MJ, Mehrotra DR, Giering J, et al
This study evaluated articular cartilage degeneration in the humeral head using a multimodal approach integrating Raman spectroscopy, mechanical testing, biochemical analysis, and micro-computed…
Oviedo M, Arnold KM, Zars EL, et al
Define the natural history of articular joint changes in aging C57BL/6JN mice. Male and female C57BL/6JN mice of various ages were obtained from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Knee joints…
Chen PY, Wang J
Zhang Y, Zheng Z, Hou W, et al
This study aimed to elucidate the role of SESN2 in the pathological process of osteoarthritis (OA), with a particular focus on its potential mechanism in regulating chondrocyte mitochondrial…
Sater A, Ho A, Koshak C, et al
Retrospective cohort study. To evaluate radiographic and patient-reported outcomes of adult spinal deformity (ASD) correction using patient-specific rods (PSRs), with emphasis on coronal alignment.…
Zhu Y, Wei W, Wang X, et al
Osteonecrosis of the femoral head-associated cartilage degeneration (ONFH-ACD) is characterized by fibrocartilaginous remodeling, loss of hyaline matrix, and mechanical impairment, but its regulatory…
Nguyen VT, Kuo YJ, Wu LC, et al
Rotator cuff tears cause significant shoulder pain and functional limitation. Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair improves symptoms, yet structural failure rates remain substantial. Smoking may impair…
Ricchetti ET, Collins AP, Khazzam MS, et al
Consensus-derived diagnostic criteria for shoulder periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) were established at the Second International Consensus Meeting (ICM) on Musculoskeletal Infection in 2018. Data…
Villacis DC
Irreparable rotator cuff tears remain a challenge for orthopedic surgeons. Reverse shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) has become an increasingly common option for these patients. However, in patients…
Inoue J, Mattar LT, Takaba K, et al
Although exercise therapy is an effective treatment for individuals with symptomatic rotator cuff tendon tears, tear size can increase. Understanding factors associated with tear progression will…
Kirkham MS, Carlson HB, Merrill E, et al
Cutibacterium acnes is the most frequent cause of shoulder prosthetic joint infection with skin edges as a source of wound contamination. The primary purpose of this study was to determine if the use…
Mielke AM, Tani S, Ishikawa K, et al
Retrospective cross-sectional study. To identify multimodal imaging predictors of lumbar vertebral compression strength (CS), focusing on volumetric bone mineral density (vBMD), vertebral bone…
Yassin M, Murad H, Mahamid A, et al
Elbow valgus stability relies on both static and dynamic stabilizers. The medial collateral ligament, particularly the anterior bundle (AB), provides primary resistance to valgus stress, whereas the…
de Mello Ribeiro Pinto G, Rezende RC, Brown E, et al
The treatment of large to massive rotator cuff tears leads to a high failure rate and several techniques have been proposed to improve these results. Rerouting the long head of the biceps tendon…
Baek CH, Lim C, Kim JG, et al
Anterior latissimus dorsi and teres major (aLDTM) tendon transfer is an established procedure for isolated irreparable subscapularis tendon tear and anterosuperior irreparable rotator cuff tears.…
Strangmark EM, Myerson CL, Zuckerman JD
This narrative review presents commonly used radiographic parameters in shoulder surgery. The review outlines the historical context, definitions, and evidence regarding diagnostic and prognostic…
Collins AP, Whitson AJ, Budge MD, et al
The utility and optimal threshold for serum laboratory tests taken prior to revision shoulder arthroplasty are unknown. We performed a multi-institutional study of consecutive revision shoulder…
Tareen H, Fox M, Panagitidou A, et al
Revision total elbow arthroplasty (TEA) is technically demanding and carries a substantial risk of postoperative neurological complications because of scarring, altered anatomy, implant removal, and…
Song J, Wu KA, Mai E, et al
Outpatient total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) is increasingly performed as perioperative pathways and value-based care models expand. However, a subset of patients scheduled for outpatient TSA require…
Xue C, Meng S, Zhu B, et al
This study was designed to compare the 2-year clinical and radiologic results of the truly anatomic coracoclavicular ligament reconstruction (TACCR) vs. TACCR with additional acromioclavicular…
Kirkham MS, Guy CR, Puzzitiello RN, et al
Optimizing patient outcomes in reverse total shoulder arthroplasty remains a subject of ongoing research. Newly described radiographic angles allow the determination of the glenoid and humeral…
Movassaghi A, Donley C, Moriconi C, et al
Shoulder arthroplasty has emerged as a reliable treatment for end-stage glenohumeral arthritis. However, as the volume of total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) increases nationwide, revision procedures…
Lee JH, Rhyou IH, Ahn KB, et al
Determining which posterolateral elbow dislocations require surgery is challenging as major ligament tears often occur regardless of clinical stability. This study aimed to identify specific magnetic…
Frappa N, Listopadzki TR, Lutnick E, et al
Cutibacterium acnes is the most common pathogen in shoulder periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) but remains difficult to distinguish from contamination due to its low virulence and presence as a…
Kim YH, Lehtonen E, Beall K, et al
Proximal humeral fractures (PHFs) are common in the elderly population, and the use of reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) as treatment has risen substantially in recent years. As opposed to…
Lhee SH, Jeon D, Chae S, et al
Posterior glenoid dysplasia (PGD) has been described as an adaptive osseous change in young throwing athletes exposed to repetitive mechanical stress. However, prior studies have lacked consistent…
Persaud SG, Eskew JR, Ortiz S, et al
Primary total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) utilization has grown substantially in recent years. As procedure volume increases, understanding how operative volume is distributed across the surgeon…
Lin N, Zheng L, Li W, et al
Reconstruction of an oncologically resected proximal humerus poses a challenge to surgeons, and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) may provide greater functional improvement. However, the…
Patel R, P Kucharik M, Schmidt CM, et al
Reverse shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) is increasingly used as a revision option, but long-term survivorship and patient-reported outcomes (PROs) after revision rTSA remain poorly defined. We…
Kim JH, Kwon YU, Kim DY, et al
While age, tear size, and fatty infiltration are established prognostic indicators for arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR), little is known about the impact of tendon stump status and concomitant…
Eisenberg MT, Hui C, Schwartz K, et al
Reverse total shoulder arthroplasty has roughly a 4% risk of acromial stress fracture (ASF) and is associated with poor outcomes. Previous finite element analyses indicated that glenoid center of…
Adan FO, Puckett HD, Moen RK, et al
Various fixation methods of distal biceps brachii tendon rupture (buttons, screws, and anchors) have been shown to have similar outcomes. However, the impact of these different implants on total day…
McGinley J, Lampe K, Van Pelt B, et al
Ulnar collateral ligament sub-apophyseal avulsions are increasingly prevalent among youth baseball players, yet knowledge regarding avulsive changes in asymptomatic athletes is sparse. Ultrasound…
Lu H, Cui Y
Kavukcu MB, Özaslan Hİ, Akcan G, et al
Rotator cuff tears are the most prevalent shoulder pathology requiring surgery, yet high retear rates necessitate additional biological adjuncts. This study evaluated the effects of bone…
ASES Multicenter Research Group
Return to sport (RTS), particularly golf, and athletic performance following reverse shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) and anatomic shoulder arthroplasty (aTSA) remain largely understudied. Moreover,…
Assiotis A, Rumian A, Guilliatt M, et al
The majority of studies that measure glenoid bone loss in the context of shoulder instability are based on a sagittal image, termed the en face view, with the aid of best-fit circles. However, the en…
Matsui Y, Momma D, Ike S, et al
Osteochondritis dissecans of the capitellum occurs in adolescent baseball players, with repetitive throwing recognized as a major risk factor. Whether repetitive batting contributes to cumulative…
Daher M, Ashkar I, Parmar T, et al
While reverse shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) is commonly utilized for rotator cuff tear arthropathy, indications have expanded to include, primary glenohumeral osteoarthritis (GHOA) with intact cuff.…
Kale KM, Chai YH, Patel S, et al
Systematic review and meta-analysis. To compare long-term patient-reported outcomes between surgical and nonoperative management for cervical radiculopathy. Cervical radiculopathy is a common…
Sontam TR, Tummala S, Khela HS, et al
Cannabis use has become increasingly common in the general population, with cannabis use disorder (CUD) defined as clinically significant impairment and/or distress related to cannabis consumption.…
Kinoshita Y, Tamai K, Oka M, et al
Retrospective cohort study with propensity score-matched analysis. To evaluate the association between preoperative nutritional indices and postoperative health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in…
Liu D, Yin X, Wang S, et al
Retrospective cohort study. To establish the maximal outcome improvement (MOI) threshold for moderate-to-severe spinal deformity. Interpretation of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) is often…
Baidya J, Ng M, Green WA, et al
Retrospective cohort. This study was designed to: (1) compare functional recovery after PCDF across baseline severity groups, (2) determine the rate of achieving a severity-adjusted minimum…
Pezzi A, Asada T, Durbas A, et al
Retrospective cohort study. To determine the impact of hypertrophied ligamentum flavum (HLF) on outcomes following anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) and cervical disc replacement (CDR).…
Ghauri M, Sindewald R, Fang M, et al
Retrospective cross-sectional study. We analyzed inpatient health care utilization, costs, and outcomes for pediatric neuromuscular scoliosis (NMS) in the US from 2003 to 2019. We describe…
Okubo T, Nagoshi N, Yamane J, et al
Prospective multicenter cohort study. To clarify the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and surgical outcomes in degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM). Obesity is a growing global health…
Huynh NV, Thomas JA, Braly BA, et al
Retrospective review of prospectively, consecutively enrolled patients. To assess differences in safety, efficiency and alignment between L-ALIF and LLIF at the L4-5 level in lateral single position…
Chan YC, Huang YW, Chuang SH, et al
Li C
Narayanan R, Opara OA, Kohring A, et al
A retrospective study. To compare the perioperative and postoperative outcomes among lumbar fusion patients treated at an orthopedic specialty hospital (OSH), a hybrid community hospital (HCH), and a…
Schömig F, Schönnagel L, Zhu J, et al
Retrospective cohort study. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship of abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) and a reduction in the cross-sectional area (CSA) and the fatty infiltration…
Stump K, Morar H, Aynaszyan S, et al
Lavu MS, Eghrari NB, Makineni PS, et al
Mo K, Sulieman A, Smith JS, et al
Prospective multicenter study. To determine the incidence of all-cause mortality after adult spinal deformity surgery. Patients undergoing adult spinal deformity surgery are often frail and the…
Joshi A, Schiedo RM, Bronheim RS, et al
Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data. To re-evaluate vancomycin as a preventive measure for surgical site infection (SSI). Intrawound vancomycin powder is used to prevent SSIs in…
Krutko A, Kuzmin N, Baykov E, et al
An open-label, randomized, noninferiority clinical trial. To determine the effectiveness of the MIS-TLIF over the O-TLIF in patients with symptomatic lumbar stenosis combined with low-grade…
Woodard T, Hills J, Parent S, et al
Retrospective cohort. To examine preoperative sagittal alignment using vertebral pelvic angles (VPA) in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). VPA describes sagittal spine shape accounting for…
Ito S, Nakashima H, Segi N, et al
Large multicenter prospective study. We aimed to develop and validate a novel machine learning-based prognostic scoring system for spinal metastases. Spinal metastases, common complications in…
Rizkallah M, Boubez G, Shen J, et al
Retrospective study. The aim of this study was to assess the outcomes of single-stage posterior transpedicular corpectomy with cement-based anterior column support for spinal metastasis at longer…
Wang X, Zhao X, Ma H
Kim HJ, Chang DG, Lenke LG, et al
Russo S, Sharma A, Vardanyan R, et al
Retrospective single-center imaging-based case-control study. To determine the association between cervical foraminal stenosis and adhesive capsulitis. Patients with cervical spondylosis often…
Caffard T, Arzani A, Verna B, et al
Retrospective study. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between severity and level of cervical central stenosis (CCS) and the fat infiltration (FI) of the cervical…