Rotator Cuff Sparing Total Arthroplasty
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Official title
Rotator Cuff Sparing Total Arthroplasty - A Prospective, Randomized Clinical Trial
Brief summary
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Design: Prospective, randomized clinical trial, of 120 patients requiring a total shoulder replacement (TSR). Purpose: To collect and evaluate long-term clinical data on patients whose total shoulder replacement (TSR) is performed using the traditional surgical approach (called the subscapularis release approach) as compared to patients who have a TSR procedure done using a newer surgical approach (called the rotator cuff sparing approach).
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT01961986
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 108 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- TSR - traditional subscapularis release Procedure
- TSR - rotator cuff sparing Procedure
Procedure
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 21 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jun 30, 2010
- Primary completion
- May 3, 2017
- Completion
- May 3, 2027
- Last update posted
- Jan 5, 2026
2010 – 2027
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases | New York | New York | 10003 | — |
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- Last update posted Jan 5, 2026 · Synced Sep 12, 2026
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