Rotator cuff repair may not negatively impact driving fitness

CHICAGO — Results presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting showed rotator cuff repair had no clinically significant negative impact on driving fitness.
Peter J. Apel, MD, and colleagues used an instrumented vehicle to obtain driving kinematics and behavioral data among 21 patients prior to rotator cuff repair and postoperatively at 2, 4, 6 and 12 weeks. Researchers evaluated parking, left and right turns, straightaways, yielding to oncoming traffic, highway merges, U-turns and traffic circles, as well as hand placement on the steering wheel, turn signal

CHICAGO — Results presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting showed rotator cuff repair had no clinically significant negative impact on driving fitness.
Peter J. Apel, MD, and colleagues used an instrumented vehicle to obtain driving kinematics and behavioral data among 21 patients prior to rotator cuff repair and postoperatively at 2, 4, 6 and 12 weeks. Researchers evaluated parking, left and right turns, straightaways, yielding to oncoming traffic, highway merges, U-turns and traffic circles, as well as hand placement on the steering wheel, turn signal