Ville Äärimaa
MD, PhD, eMBA
vilaari@utu.fi |
surgery, otrhopaedics and traumatology, shoulder and elbow surgery, value based health care
Ville Äärimaa is the head of division of the musculoskeletal system at Turku University Hospital. He is a specialist of surgery and orthopaedics and traumatology, and his clinical work has focused on treating patients with shoulder disorders since 2006. In 2007 he established a clinical quality registry for all patients undergoing shoulder surgery at his clinic. Thereafter his work and research has focused on improving efficacy and effectivess of surgical treatment. He has run several randomized controlled trials with co-workers and helped to develop local, national and international collaboration and registry datasets. Ville Äärimaa's interest has further grown toward value based health care and implementation of clinical research results into clinical practise, to further improve the value of orthopaedics and traumatology.
MD, PhD Ville Äärimaa did his thesis on healing of skeletal muscle injury in 2006. Thereafter his research has focused on treatment of shoulder disorders. There are three major chronological groups of shoulder disorders, ie. instability, rotator cuff tear and osteoarthritis/cuff tear arthropathy. Ville Äärimaa's research touches upon eachs of these entities, but focuses especially on rotator cuff related problems. He has run in close collaboration with co-workers world's first randomized controlled effectiveness trial on treatment of non-traumatic rotator cuff tears and is now running a placebo controlled trial on efficacy of surgical repair of traumatic rotator cuff tears. In addition, he has run a trial on surgical treatment of shoulder instability and has studied the outcome and risks related to shoulder arthroplasty. He has helped to develop measurement methods of outcome after shoulder surgery and facilitated international collaboration and merging of uniform datasets. Ville Äärimaa has supervised one thesis work and is currently supervising four doctoral students. He has received various grants from eg. Suomen Lääketieteensäätiö, SECEC and Suomen Akatemia.
MD, PhD Ville Äärimaa is an adjunct professor (docent) at Turku University. He is a frequently invited speaker on his areas of interest both at his own clinic, in the national orthopedic forum and also in international courses and congresses.
- Arthroscopic Bankart versus open Latarjet as a primary operative treatment for traumatic anteroinferior instability in young males: a randomised controlled trial with 2-year follow-up (2022)
- British Journal of Sports Medicine
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Cross cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Finnish version of Western Ontario shoulder instability index (WOSI) (2022)
- BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Mortality and subsequent fractures of patients with olecranon fractures compared to other upper extremity osteoporotic fractures (2022)
- Shoulder and elbow
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Olkaluun yläosan murtumien ilmaantuvuus ja hoito Suomessa 1997-2019 (2022)
- Suomen ortopedia ja traumatologia
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1)) - Olkapään sijoiltaanmeno (2022)
- Duodecim
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1)) - Proximal humeral fractures in Finland: Trends in the incidence and methods of treatment between 1997 and 2019 (2022)
- Bone and Joint Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Scandinavian Olecranon Research in the Elderly (SCORE): protocol for a non- inferiority, randomised, controlled, multicentre trial comparing operative and conservative treatment of olecranon fractures in the elderly (2022)
- BMJ Open
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Vastausaktiivisuus ja siihen vaikuttavat tekijät oirekyselyissä operatiivisesti hoidetuilla tuki- ja liikuntaelin potilailla (2022)
- Suomen ortopedia ja traumatologia
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1)) - Complications and reoperations related to tension band wiring and plate osteosynthesis of olecranon fractures (2021)
- Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Functional results of total-knee arthroplasty versus medial unicompartmental arthroplasty: two-year results of a randomised, assessor-blinded multicentre trial (2021)
- BMJ Open
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Operative versus conservative treatment of small, nontraumatic supraspinatus tears in patients older than 55 years: over 5-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial (2021)
- Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Radiographic geometry and clinical glenohumeral range of motion after reverse shoulder athroplasty, a retrospective cohort study (2021)
- Journal of Orthopaedics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Suomen tekonivelrekisteri 40 vuotta laadun tukena (2021)
- Lääkärilehti
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2)) - Bankart versus Latarjet operation as a revision procedure after a failed arthroscopic Bankart repair (2020)
- JSES international
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Effectiveness of supervised physiotherapy after arthroscopic rotator cuff reconstruction: a randomized controlled trial (2020)
- Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Low arthroplasty survival after treatment for proximal humerus fracture sequelae: 3,245 shoulder replacements from the Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association (2020)
- Acta Orthopaedica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Low risk of revision after reverse shoulder arthroplasty for acute proximal humeral fractures (2020)
- JSES international
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Acute Cuff Tear Repair Trial (ACCURATE): protocol for a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled trial on the efficacy of arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (2019)
- BMJ Open
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Core set of unfavorable events of shoulder arthroplasty: an international Delphi consensus process (2019)
- Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - The benefits of collaboration: the Nordic Arthroplasty Register Association (2019)
- EFORT Open Reviews
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))