PROVIDER EDUCATION
Access Orthopaedics Ensures Fewer Treatment Delays for Patients Who Need Care Now
We provide your patient with a full range of treatment options to rehabilitate faster and return to their everyday activities.
We have developed a number of resources to help patients with their shoulder injury or condition. Explore the links below for our non operative shoulder program and information handouts on different shoulder conditions.
Non Operative Shoulder Exercise Program
In collaboration with the Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation and the Canadian Elbow and Shoulder Society, Dr. David Sheps has assisted in the development of additional education material for patients about shoulder injuries and their treatment.
When It Hurts To Move – Patient Information Resources
Our orthopaedic surgeons and physiotherapists have been integral in the development of universal protocols for post-operative shoulder rehabilitation for the Calgary zone. These protocols aim to improve and standardize shoulder care and provide health care practitioners the resources to help guide their patients through their rehabilitation.
Rotator Cuff Repair Post Operative Protocol
Anterior Shoulder Stabilization Post Operative Protocol
Posterior Shoulder Stabilization Post Operative Protocol
Post-Operative Total and Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty Protocol – coming soon!
Our clinicians have developed resources to help guide the rehabilitation for common elbow conditions, such as lateral epicondylitis. These evidence-based guidelines incorporate patient education and focus on an active rehabilitation program.
Lateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow) Guidelines
Medial Epicondylitis – coming soon!
Dr. David Sheps and physiotherapist, Colleen Kuntze, are the co-leads for the Shoulder Assessment Initiative within the Alberta Health Services Bone and Joint Strategic Clinical Network. This initiative has focused on the development of a care pathway for the assessment and management of shoulder conditions in Alberta.
This project is a culmination of research evidence and consensus recommendations of 55 health care providers across Alberta, including orthopaedic surgeons, radiologists, physiatrists, sport medicine physicians and physiotherapists. Please find the links below to the resources developed during this project.
Shoulder Assessment Clinical Pathway (One Pager)
Shoulder Assessment Clinical Pathway (Full Document)
Publications
Eubank, B. et al, 2021. Consensus for a primary care clinical decision-making tool for assessing, diagnosing, and managing shoulder pain in Alberta, Canada. BMC Fam Prac, 22(201). Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8502088/
Our on-site interventional suite allows us to provide patients with a wide range of range of pain management options. Our collaborative care model with the radiologists and pain management team allows for targeted and quality care with timely access and comprehensive follow up for optimization of a patient’s recovery.
Our pain management services are accessible through our assessment team. Please complete our referral form to have your patient assessed.
“I would like to send the reception staff, Dr. Schachar and the physiotherapist my gratitude and appreciation for the kind and professional attitude that I felt during my assessment at your clinic. It was a great experience to be managed by such a professional team.”
Shareef Sameer, MD, Orthopaedic Surgeon
