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Commentary Volume 10 Issue 2
What approaches prevail and what are promising: is there a role for vitamin D in the non-operative and operative management of older adults with glenohumeral/shoulder osteoarthritis?
Ray Marks
Osteoarthritis Research Center, Canada
Received: July 21, 2025 | Published: July 25, 2025
Citation: Marks R. What approaches prevail and what are promising: is there a role for vitamin D in the non-operative and operative management of older adults with glenohumeral/shoulder osteoarthritis? MOJ Gerontol Ger. 2025;10(2):43‒49. DOI: 10.15406/mojgg.2025.10.00338
Abstract
Osteoarthritis, a chronic health condition
induces high degrees of disability and health costs in all parts of the globe
and is presumably very limiting and disabling if the disease manifests at the
shoulder joint despite advanced surgical joint replacement and remedial
procedures. In this overview, what has been observed in this regard is
documented using the PUBMED and GOOGLE SCHOLAR data bases extending from very
limited reports in 1950 to more than 4800 articles in 2025 on shoulder
osteoarthritis wherein articular cartilage damage causes immense pain. These
data reveal only modest remedial progress and in 2025 the treatment focus falls
predominantly on surgical solutions rather than non surgical modes of
intervention or co intervention to mitigate dysfunction, and/or joint damage.
However, in addition to a possible role for increasing age, inaccurate health
beliefs, shoulder muscle fat mass infiltration alongside muscle pain and
atrophy that may have a strong bearing on shoulder osteoarthritis disability,
other factors such as genetics, demographics, cognitions, bone and vitamin D
deficits, and occupational factors may preside. In this complex realm of
disease mediators we propose vitamin D may be helpful in several respects boyj
before and after shoulder surgery.
Keywords: older adults, osteoarthritis, pain, shoulder joint, treatment, vitamin D
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