Shoulders and Elbows and Shoulders and Elbows.....

This whole week in Sydney has been busy...busier than in Christchurch I should say. The last week conference was very eventful.Lots of learning, lots of great men talking, newer instruments and implants, meeting new people and dining too. This week Monday I had been to royal North shore private to observe Prof Sonnanbend and Jeff Hughes. Prof had two small cases - SADs. I saw Jeff doing an open OK procedure. It is a good surgery for big osteophytes around elbow with impingement pain. Afternoon clinics I was with Prof Sonnanbend. That was again a good experience. Tuesday morning Marter Hospital. List with prof. we had a reverse shoulder, one stabilisation and one ac joint debridement. The reverse was for cuff tear arthropathy. depuy reverse. Prof was magnanimous to allow me to scrub in the case. The case went on well. the critical thing is the exposure of glenoid for putting in the glenosphere. The nest day ...two lists one in public and one in private...Prof did a revision in which he did a reverse removing a hemi, and a latarjet. Jeff did two replacements, one zimmer reverse with bone graft and one smr total shoulder again with bone graft. then he did one capsular release of shoulder and two elbow scopies one synovectomy and one osteocapsulectomy.
Thursday i went to Prince of Wales to watch Jerome goldberg. He had eight cases on list. The re were two pec major repairs, two open cuffs in which one was subscap repair,one scopic cuff,two stabilisations and one massive cuff for which ad arthroscopic repair was done. the last case was done by John trantalis an upcoming shoulder surgeon trained in Canada. Jerome is a wonderful man and a great surgeon.I am taking hos trough repairs with me. Friday was a day in clinics with Ben and evening surgeries with Ben the highlight case being a malunited proximal humerus for which he did a tuberoplasty.
The week has been really good.