RESEARCH ARTICLE
A History of Shoulder Surgery
S Iqbal*, U Jacobs, A Akhtar, R.J Macfarlane, M Waseem
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2013Volume: 7
Issue: Suppl 3
First Page: 305
Last Page: 309
Publisher ID: TOORTHJ-7-305
DOI: 10.2174/1874325001307010305
Article History:
Received Date: 3/11/2012Revision Received Date: 1/2/2013
Acceptance Date: 9/2/2013
Electronic publication date: 6/9/2013
Collection year: 2013

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Abstract
Shoulder surgery has emerged from being a marginalised sub-speciality to being an area of much research and advancement within the last seventy years. This has been despite the complexity of the joint, and success majorly rests on parallel development of biomedical technology. This article looks at the past and present of shoulder surgery and discusses future directions in the speciality.