Review Article Shoulder Osteoarthritis

Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most frequent cause of disability in the USA, affecting up to 32.8 % of patients over the age of sixty. Treatment of shoulder OA is oen controversial and includes both nonoperative and surgical modalities. Nonoperative modalities should be utilized before operative treatment is considered, particularly for patients with mild-to-moderate OA or when pain and functional limitations are modest despite more advanced radiographic changes. If conservative options fail, surgical treatment should be considered.Although different surgical procedures are available, as in other joints affected by severeOA, themost effective treatment is joint arthroplasty. e aim of this work is to give an overview of the currently available treatments of shoulder OA. 1. Background Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most frequent cause of disability in the USA [1]. Although not as prevalent as OA of the hip or knee, OA of the shoulder has been demonstrated, in cadaver and radiographic studies, to affect up to 32.8 % of patients over the age of sixty years [2, 3] and to be equally debilitating [4]. Patients perceive that the impact of shoulder OA i