Shoulder arthritis starts with increasing age or after injury. Complaints are pain, stiffness or a grinding sensation. For severe arthritis, we replace your shoulder to give excellent pain relief and improvement in function. Depending on your type of disease this is either hemiarthroplasty (changing the ball) or total shoulder replacement (changing both ball and socket).
When shoulder arthritis occurs due to long standing rotator cuff tears, we perform a reverse shoulder replacement (ball replaces socket and socket replaces ball). More about shoulder replacements