This is some new research I helped with available via early online publication from Clinical Biomechanics regarding sizing prostheses in reverse shoulder arthroplasty. Essentially the bottom line that we found was that it is very important for the treating surgeon to account for different morphologies of the patient when implanting a shoulder. Sometimes it can […]

@KVIseattle @IRGPT @KOMOnewsradio THANKS for having me! Listen live today at 3:30 on KVI, Sunday at Noon, and September 15th during drive time on KOMO for my interview on shoulder instability.

Thanks again to KVI/KOMO Radio and of course IRG for inviting me back recently for another interview this time on Total Shoulder Arthroplasty and Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty.

This is a study I performed looking for risk factors of dislocation after reverse shoulder arthroplasty, and treatment options. Closed treatment (non-surgical) treatment was effective, which is slightly against a lot of opinions out there that believe these must be addressed surgically. While a subset population in our study group ultimately required surgery for this […]

Dr. Schwartz, shoulder and elbow surgeon, will be moving to a new Seattle location! The Sports Medicine Clinic has moved to a new office in Ballard right across from Trader Joe’s. With the wonderful support of Northwest Hospital and UW Medicine, a beautiful new office is now open for business. If you find yourself in […]

Rotator Cuff Tear Research JBJS – the top journal for Orthopaedic Surgeons – publishes a great blog, Orthobuzz, and it looks at a compendium of research; it recently put together a great snipped on active research on patients that have a rotator cuff tear. It pulls together useful snippets for surgeons to be able to […]

I was invited by IRG Physical Therapy to their ESPN Sports Injury Update to discuss various shoulder sports medicine injuries commonly encountered at KOMO ESPN. I had time to do a few updates on impingement syndrome of the shoulder, distal biceps injuries (biceps ruptures), as well as biceps tendonitis around the shoulder. It is always […]

There is an excellent article on a great blog, OrthoBuzz, about shoulder tendonitis and its causes. Feel free to read more here.

So any patient that has seen me has gotten my standard frozen shoulder talk: there is a capsular ballon between your muscles and your bones that supports the ball and socket type joint. In frozen shoulder, also known as adhesive capsulitis (which if you take about the name adhesive = sticky, capsule = shoulder capsule, […]

What is Arthroscopy? Arthroscopy is a type of a surgical procedure where a small camera, the size of a pencil, is placed into a joint. The camera relays the image to a monitor allowing the surgeon to see in greater detail than any study possible the anatomy within the joint. This allows the surgeon to […]