Asking the Right Questions After Adverse Outcomes JBJS OrthoJoe

Wednesday, September 2, 2026 8:00 PM

Readers may enjoy this JBJS Podcast regarding learning from adverse outcomes.Read also All the Failures We Cannot SeeLearning from Surgical FailuresFollow on twitter/X: https://x.com/RickMatsenFollow on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shoulder.arthritisFollow ...

What Is the Evidence on the Natural History and Long-Term Outcomes of Degenerative Rotator Cuff Tears? The View from the perspective of the patient.

Sunday, August 30, 2026 5:16 PM

 Most surgeons agree that a healthy person with an acute cuff tear should consider a prompt repair. Not much of a debate there.So, instead, let’s consider the more common situation, such as a 74 year old patient comes in with a painful ...

Nobody with Shoulder Arthritis Comes In Asking For An ASES score of 80...Guess What They Do Ask For

Sunday, August 23, 2026 7:40 PM

Part One — The question1. What patients actually askPatient-reported outcomes are often reported as a single number — ASES, SANE, VAS, SAS. In fifty plus years of practice I have never had a patient with shoulder arthritis ask whether ...

Recent Reports about the Reverse Total Shoulder — What Can We Learn from Them?

Saturday, August 15, 2026 4:47 PM

PART I — THE SHORT VERSIONNine papers on the reverse total shoulder arthroplasty came across the desk in the past few weeks. Eight of them measured something other than what the patient felt about their result from the surgery. Only ...