Publications

This study found that 57.4% of patients who participated in sports prior to injury achieved a full return to sport (RTS) within 24 months after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR), with favorable prognostic factors for full RTS including traumatic injury etiology, high motivation to RTS, higher sports activity levels at 6 months, and a low depression score at 12 months.

This study updated and internally validated a new multivariable logistic regression model, the ARCR_Pred-POSS, to predict the occurrence of postoperative shoulder stiffness (POSS) within six months after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR), achieving superior discrimination (AUC=0.735) and calibration compared to an existing model, and identified seven key prognostic factors, thereby providing a reliable tool to support personalized surgical timing, indications, and rehabilitation.

This prospective, multicenter cohort study on arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR), using a standardized Core Event Set (CES) for documentation, found a 2-year adverse event (AE) cumulative risk of 29.1%, with persistent pain and deep soft tissue complications being the most common, emphasized the need for both patient and clinician reporting due to low concordance, and noted that tear severity was inversely associated with overall AE risk.

This study found that the Swiss Orthopaedics Minimal Data Set (SOMDS) is a valid, time-saving alternative to the Constant score for assessing shoulder outcomes after arthroscopic rotator cuff reconstruction, exhibiting comparable validity to the Subjective Shoulder Value (SSV) but a more pronounced ceiling effect, suggesting the SSV is better for patient-perceived functionality and the SOMDS for broader health assessment.

The multicenter ARCR_Pred study, which enrolled 973 patients in Switzerland, demonstrated that arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR) led to improved functional scores over 24 months, with better outcomes associated with higher education and worse outcomes linked to depression, anxiety, smoking, and higher ASA groups, while finding no consistent differences in outcome between public and private hospitals.

This study found that preoperative health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair is significantly associated with sociodemographic and patient-related factors, with positive associations for being male, older age, and higher education, and negative associations for increased BMI, worse sleep quality, depression, comorbidities, and pain.

This study of patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR) found that biceps tenotomy is associated with a three times higher risk of developing a Popeye sign compared to tenodesis, though the sign appears to have no relevant effect on clinical outcome or pain despite a lower subjective shoulder value in the Popeye group.

This study found that a high prevalence of sleep disturbances and nocturnal pain in patients with rotator cuff tears significantly improves after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, with women experiencing worse sleep quality than men.

Patients with degenerative and traumatic supraspinatus tendon tears undergoing ARCR achieve similar functional and structural outcomes after 1 year, despite lower baseline scores in the traumatic group

Systematic review summarizing the evidence related to prognostic factors estimated for the shoulder function after an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair

Systematic review summarizing the evidence related to prognostic factors estimated for the occurrence of post-operative shoulder stiffness

ARCR_Pred study protocol