Too Many Shoulder Replacements? Philadelphia surgeon raises concern

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Joseph Abboud, M.D., is an orthopedic surgeon at the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia and associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He tells OTW, “We are seeing a huge increase in the utilization of reverse shoulder replacement. While it is typically done for patients with arthritis and rotator cuff disease, the indications have expanded somewhat. It is interesting to see how much it is being marketed, and in some ways overutilized…and we only have an eight-...