CHICAGO — Patients with stiff shoulders after rotator cuff repair were more likely to be satisfied with their repair and less likely to require revision surgery than patients without stiff shoulders, according to results presented here.
George A. C. Murrell, MD, and colleagues compared range of motion, shoulder function, shoulder strength and rotator cuff integrity using ultrasound between patients with and patients without stiff shoulders who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. Patients were matched for calendar year of surgery.
“For each year, we divided patients into the