Abstract
There are many cases which merge a traumatic rotator cuff injury to the acromioclavicular dislocation. We examined it and the influence it exerts on its presence and also the postoperative results of this complication. We studied the fifty-nine shoulders of fifty-nine patients, who were diagnosed as Rockwood type III and operated on between 1993 and 2001. There were fifty-seven males and two females, whose age at the time of surgery ranged from thirteen —sixty-eight years old, average thirty-one point three years old. The Rockwood modified operative procedure was performed. The presence of complications of the rotator cuff injury were judged by physical examination at the time of the first medical examination. There were nine shoulders (15.3%), with complicated rotator cuff injuries whose age was twenty —fifty-five years old, average twenty-nine point six years old. Some patients among these had delayed rehabilitation because of the pain of the rotator cuff, but all had returned to their daily living and social work at the time of their final medical examination. It became clear with a survey the rotator cuff disorder had a comparatively of in complications an acromioclavicular dislocation that a direct blow to the shoulder becomes the primary cause.
