Augmented reality and shoulder replacement: a state-of-the-art review article

Abstract

Since its implementation, the rates of failure of total shoulder arthroplasty which may be due to malpositioning pushed to improve this surgery by creating new techniques and tools to help perioperatively. Augmented reality, a newly used tool in orthopedic surgery can help bypass this problem and reduce the rates of failure faced in shoulder replacement surgeries. Although this technology has revolutionized orthopedic surgery and helped improve the accuracy in shoulder prosthesis components positioning, it still has some limitations such as inaccurate over-imposition that should be addressed before it becomes of standard usage.

Keywords

• Reverse shoulder arthroplasty
• Augmented reality
• Orthopedic surgery
• Technology
• Virtual reality
• Training