Director: Xinning “Tiger” Li, MD, FAAOS

Faculty: Brian Waterman, MD, Joseph Galvin, DO, Josef Eichinger MD, Richard Ma, MD, Stephen Parada, MD, Moin Khan, MD, Eugene Ek, MD, Albert Lin, MD, Joe Abboud, MD, Robert Parisien, MD, Tyler Uppstrom, MD

Learn like you were there! 
This advanced AAOS course delivers a comprehensive review of rotator cuff pathology—from partial-thickness to massive, irreparable tears—and the key factors that guide treatment decisions, including tear pattern, chronicity, tissue quality, and patient demands.

Explore evidence-based approaches for nonoperative care and advanced surgical options such as arthroscopic repair, biologic augmentation, superior capsule reconstruction, and tendon transfers. Expert faculty share the latest techniques and postoperative strategies to help you optimize outcomes for every patient.

OnDemand Format
Watch and listen to expert lectures featuring presentation slides, patient cases, surgical video demonstrations, and emerging technologies. Course content is segmented by topic, allowing you to pick up where you left off or view specific lectures across your devices at any time.

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Identify the key patient-specific factors influencing treatment selection.
• Assess the role of nonoperative management strategies, such as physical therapy, NSAIDs, and subacromial corticosteroid injections, in improving shoulder pain and dysfunction.
• Understand the indications, techniques, limitations and associated risks of the different surgical treatments.
• Compare and analyze patient outcomes of different rotator cuff surgical treatments.
• Develop evidence-based decision-making algorithms for treating massive and irreparable tears while optimizing repair durability, healing and postoperative management.
• Understand the indications and optimal patient selection for the utilization of muscle tendon transfers for irreparable rotator cuff tears