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Shoulder prosthesis, restoring patient mobility

Shoulder prosthesis, restoring patient mobility

Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 10/10/2023

The shoulder prosthesis can replace an affected bone that prevents a person from doing their daily life activities; It is a safe procedure and rehabilitation will vary depending on whether or not broken tendons

Dr. José Carlos Cortes Sandoval

shoulder dislocation Shoulder replacement surgery is to replace the bone affected by a disease may be an arthritis, osteoarthritis or sequelae of a fracture, replace it with an implant with elements that will perform the same functions that shoulder when he was healthy but not only replace, why it is known as arthroplasty. You have to handle tissue, muscle, ligaments, capsule and after it give a function, restore normalcy of the abductor mechanism to shoulder, that's a arthroplasty, replace damaged elements they will do the same function of the shoulder a healthy shoulder.

Candidates for a shoulder prosthesis

Patients who come to the clinic with shoulder pain and a radiograph is remarkable destruction of the bone with osteoarthritis, arthritis, sequelae of a fracture are candidates for a prosthetic replacement patients because they can not perform their activities everyday, working and sporting life. These are patients who do not have the strength to lift his arm, shoulder and crackles them that, despite drug treatment and rehabilitation and physical therapy, discomfort persist.

Radiography allows us to observe the complete disruption of the normal architecture of the shoulder. In an arthritic shoulder is no pain, no crepitus and the patient can not move, this is where the head and replace the caps are elements that prostheses can restore function. Shoulder replacement surgery is also working on ligaments, tendons and muscles, that is where the other study other than plain radiography, MRI and ultrasound can give more items injured in the shoulder, so that together with the prosthetic replacement can regain strength and movement.

Safe surgery

Prosthetic replacement surgery in surgery lasts between 1 and 2 hours, according to the diagnosis that has initially. Not the same operating on a patient with arthritis to operate on a patient who must take a prosthesis and put another, or even patients with sequelae of a fracture in his shoulder and must be stopped prosthesis.

The protocol for diagnosis and treatment is different for each patient and the physician should warn several "items" during surgery to give prevented and safe surgery. One of them is the surgical instruments provided by the supplier and the type of prosthesis that previously the doctor and selected as the most suitable for the problem of this patient.

During surgery can be exchanged measures of a prosthesis and the elements necessary for the patient, both the head and the shoulder of his bone. The elements of these prostheses have already been tested by years of scientific research and certified companies. These elements are provided by the supplier to meet the needs surgery.

Shoulder prostheses have been developed for 60 years and doctors can be trained in companies and hospitals dedicated solely to these procedures. Currently is a safe, fully reproducible and in order to relieve pain and restore mobility to the patient, even in cases where surgery tendons are broken

Treatment after surgery

The patient must show two scenarios, whether or not their broken tendons; for rehabilitation is not the same rehabilitate a tendon sutured to rehabilitate a tendon in a prosthesis in joint replacement, which not it is the tendon. In a normal scenario treating a patient with a type of prosthesis used to ruptured tendons is about 6 to 8 weeks and therefore their expectations are met, in a patient with a tendon that is affected is less time. The ease of obtaining these times is modular prosthesis, then it is very important to make a good diagnosis and differentiate between patients with ruptured tendons without ruptured tendons.

Traumatology and Orthopedics in Guadalajara