Mayo Clinic Course on Shoulder Tendon Transfers and Complex Rotator Cuff Repair 2019

  • 25-27 Apr 2019
  • Mayo Clinic Siebens Building, Rochester, MN, United States

Description

The Mayo Clinic Course on Shoulder Tendon Transfers and Complex Rotator Cuff Repair 2019 is a course that covers topics such as:

  • How to predict which cuff tears are irreparable and how to best select various treatment options, includinf partial repair, augmentation, superior capsular reconstruction, reverse shoulder arthroplasty, and tendon transfers
  • The biomechanics of the rotator cuff and periscapular muscles and well as the relative biomechanical advangtages and disadvantages of various tendon transfers around to shoulder
  • The value of reverse arthroplasty in the patients with massive irreparable cuff tears and the need to add tendon transfers in the same surgical setting, or to consider them after reverse if needed
  • Technical pearls regarding modern tendon transfers for reconsrtruction of shoulders with an irreparable rotator cuff tear, using both open and arthroscopic techniques, for posterosuperior tears, anterosuperior tears, or combined tears
  • The physical examination of the scapula as well as the various tendon transfers for dysfunction of the serratus anterior, trapezius, and others

The Mayo Clinic Course on Shoulder Tendon Transfers and Complex Rotator Cuff Repair 2019 is intended for orthopedic surgeons.

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Health & Medicine: Orthopedics, Surgery

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