Published results showed 44% of patients on workers’ compensation who underwent revision rotator cuff repair struggled to return to work in full capacity.
Tyler A. Luthringer, MD, and colleagues from Rothman Orthopaedic Institute performed a retrospective review of data on 25 patients (27 shoulders; mean age of 54 years) who underwent arthroscopic revision rotator cuff repair (RCR) while on workers’ compensation between January 2010 and April 2021.
According to the study, outcome measures included return-to-work capacity, reoperations, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons scores and