Surgical Treatment Options for the Young and Active Middle-Aged Patient with Glenohumeral Arthritis

Table 1

Outcomes of palliative and reparative treatment for glenohumeral arthritis.

Author	Surgical technique	Number of patients	Main results	Other notable findings
Van Thiel et al. [13]	Palliative	71	Significant improvement in pain, SST score, and range of motion in short term	22% went on to shoulder replacement in 10.1 months
Cameron et al. [22]	Palliative	61	Significant improvement in pain at 28 months	Workers' Compensation patients fared poorly
Weinstein et al. [26]	Palliative	25	84% had good or excellent findings at 30 months	Poor results associated with severe joint incongruity or large osteophytes
Millett et al. [25]	Reparative	25	Significant improvement in pain, ASES score, ability to work	Best results in those with isolated humeral lesions
Frank et al. [18]	Reparative	16	Significant improvements in pain, ASES score, and SST score at 27.8 months	3 patients had failed results
Snow and Funk [27]	Reparative	6	Significant improvement in constant score	Repeat arthroscopy confirmed good filling of lesions with fibrocartilage