What is reverse total shoulder replacement?
Reverse total shoulder replacement, or reverse total shoulder arthroplasty, is a procedure to reconstruct a shoulder that was previously thought to be non-operable—such as a shoulder with a rotator cuff tear, re-tear, deficiency, tendon rupture, severe fracture or advanced arthritis. “Patients also come to the Center for Orthopedics for a reverse total shoulder replacement after having undergone a failed partial or complete shoulder replacement elsewhere,” says Robert Zanotti, MD, who performed the first reverse total shoulder replacement in Lorain County, Ohio in 2007.
