Arthroplasty of the shoulder joint.

Abstract

In 2016, the shoulder community hails the forward thinking of Charles S. Neer, II who designed the first shoulder replacement system to deal with painful arthritic shoulders. The solution was clearly needed: shoulder replacement has increased, developed, and surged with leaps and bounds all over our planet (53,000 shoulder replacements are done annually in the USA only). The initial clinical problem catered for was degenerative joint disease of the shoulder joint, but the principle proved so successful that other pathologies of the shoulder that proved to be amenable to related procedures.