Shoulder Rehabilitation Treatment Guidelines

patient getting shoulder worked on

Standardized, consensus and evidence derived post-operative shoulder rehabilitation guidelines for patients following Arthroscopic Bankart, Arthroscopic/Mini-Open Rotator Cuff Repairs and Total Shoulder Arthroplasty have been developed by a multidisciplinary team of physical therapists, orthopedic surgeons and physicians known as SURGE (Shoulder and Elbow Research Group of Edmonton).

These guidelines provide a common platform from which physical therapists, surgeons and physicians can work. The hope is that these new guidelines will lead to improved, standardized care for post-operative shoulder patients, as well as provide information that is appropriate (to the specific surgical procedure and patient), beneficial and worthwhile (providing the user with useful, easy to interpret information).

Development of Post-Operative Shoulder Rehabilitation Guidelines

Edmonton Region Shoulder Rehabilitation Guidelines

  1. Arthroscopic Bankart Repair
  2. STANDARD Arthroscopic/Mini-Open Rotator Cuff Repair
  3. NON-STANDARD Arthroscopic/Mini-Open Rotator Cuff Repair
  4. Total Shoulder Arthroplasty
  5. Posterior Labral Repair
  6. Nonoperative Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Guideline

Videos

The following videos contain information and demonstrations of the specific treatment interventions for each phase of the shoulder guidelines:

Bankart Repair Guidelines


Phase I


Phase II


Phase III

Standard RC Guidelines


Phase I


Phase II


Phase III

Non-Standard RC Guidelines