Balloon for Irreparable Rotator Cuffs! (Orthopedics This Week)
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Balloon as spacer/re-educator…Joseph A. Abboud, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, is helping patients who have suffered massive irreparable rotator cuff (RC) tears. Dr. Abboud tells OTW, “There are many patients with these types of tears who have been told that they cannot be helped arthroscopically. An FDA IDE [investigational device exemption] study is now underway in the U.S. at several centers, including The Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to evaluate a new device called InSpace. This device, is manufactured by an Israeli company named OrthoSpace and has been approved and available in Europe for over five years with encouraging data reported.”
“With difficult RC tears you may not be able to bring the tissue of the rotator cuff back to the bone effectively thus impacting the healing cascade. One way to circumvent this problem is to use reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA); which is a fairly invasive procedure. The InSpace technology, which works in the subacromial space, involves inserting a s...
