Patients experiences - assisted consent - The Reading Shoulder Unit

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Applications for the shoulder fellowship starting in 2017 is now open.
Please apply by visiting the Unit and sending your CV to Jan Barker
Visits to the Reading shoulder unit are welcome - Please liaise with Jan Barker [Read more]
RSU is advertising for shoulder fellowship to start in July 2017
a post-CCT shoulder fellowship for One year. please send CV to Mrs Jan Barker and arrange a visit to meet Prof Levy and Mr Sforza. [Read more]
Coming up courses:
we invite you to join us:
1. Reading Shoulder Arthroplasty Instructional course, 3-4 november 2017. Poznan, Poland.
  With UK and International faculty
  
  Limited places - Register early
New, New, New: Innovative Design Orthopaedics -
IDO Isometer Shoulder Muscle Strength Gauge. [Read more]
Verso Stemless TSA with a new company Innovative Design Orthopaedics (IDO)
Shoulder study day for Physiotherapists
Will be available soon.
Please register your interest by e-mail to: course@readingshoulderunit.com [Read more]
For GPs - New!!! NHS Choose & Book
The Unit at Berkshire Independent Hospital is open for NHS patients through Choose & Book (Extended Choice Network).
Book online or contact the secretaries. [Read more]
Groundbreaking research from the Reading Shoulder Unit by Prof. Ofer Levy and his team regarding Propionibacterium Acnes and shoulder arthritis.
Propionibacterium acnes: an underestimated etiology in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis?

This is a very important article in that it suggests the presence of propionibacterium in previously unoperated shoulders with arthritis and furthermore that 'aseptic' failures of shoulder arthroplasty may, in fact, be related to indolent infections with this slow growing organism.
Read comments by Dr Frederick A. Matsen III, M.D.
[Read more]
New Survey on usage of shoulder replacement prostheses.
Take the survey [Read more]
Listen to the BBC Radio4 programme - a day in the operating theatre at the Reading Shoulder Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital - Case Notes with Dr Mark Porter on Regional anaesthesia for shoulder surgery [Read more]
The least complications with the Verso shoulder compared with other reverse shoulder systems
From the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK

Bone Joint J 2013 vol. 95-B no. SUPP 27 25

COMPLICATION RATES FROM THREE

COMMONLY USED REVERSE POLARITY TOTAL

SHOULDER REPLACEMENTS: A MINIMUM TWOYEAR

FOLLOW-UP OF 64 CASES
S. Robati, M.K. Shahid, J. Allport, A. Ray and G. Sforza
Art at the Reading Shoulder and Elbow Centre
Original fine art prints all dealing with human body in different situations by four artists are exhibited in the Reading Shoulder and Elbow centre

The prints on display are available to buy, with the artist contributing a donation to research. For more information please contact the secretaries in the unit.
[Read more]
The Verso stemless rTSA is approved in Australia & New Zealand by the TGA.
Its use is launched soon in Australia & New Zealand.
Excellent clinical results over more than 11 years with the Verso rTSA.
Very high patient satisfaction and return to full activities including sports. [Read more]

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Patient assisted consent for surgery

Patients' experiences

This section has been added to enable us to provide patients with a more complete overview of the surgical and rehabilitation experience. It comprises letters from patients regarding their overall surgical experience, and supplements the information provided by the medical team...a bit like talking to someone who has undergone a similar treatment to one that you may have been recommended. We hope the patients' viewpoint is useful to you and would appreciate any similar feedback, which may be put onto the website for the purpose of patient- assisted consent.