QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING REVERSE SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY

To identify and review national and international articles that address the impacts on quality of life and the main clinical-functional outcomes of patients undergoing rotator cuff arthroplasty technique.

A systematic literature search was conducted using the databases Lilacs, MedLine, Pubmed, Scielo, BVS and Cochrane, published in the last 05 years.

623 articles were found, with 575 excluded after temporal screening, title and abstract reading. For initial registration purposes, 48 studies were selected, of which 12 were excluded for being duplicates. Of the remaining 36 studies, 31 were excluded for not meeting the inclusion criteria, resulting in 05 studies that composed the synthesized data. All classified as Evidence Level I by AHRQ.

The results of this study suggest that individuals with rotator cuff injuries can benefit from the Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty technique for rotator cuff treatment, where it can be observed that patients undergoing RSA had significant improvement in functional capacity and quality of life, showing improvements in both physical and emotional aspects and functional independence. Level of Evidence III; Systematic Review .