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.
- Declining incidence of acromioplasty in Finland (2015)
- Acta Orthopaedica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Increasing incidence of rotator cuff repairs-A nationwide registry study in Finland (2015)
- BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Is there more than one approach to evaluating the variability of surgeons' performance? (2015)
- International Journal of Surgery
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Olkanivelen varreton Zimmer Sidus kokotekonivel: lyhyen seuranta-ajan kliiniset ja radiologiset tulokset TYKS:ssa (2015)
- Suomen ortopedia ja traumatologia
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Olkapään jännevaivat – Käypä hoito -suosituksen tiivistelmä (2015)
- Duodecim
(Other publication) - Olkapotilaan tutkiminen (2015) Ville Äärimaa
(Other publication) - The effect of tear size on the treatment outcome of operatively treated rotator cuff tears (2015)
- Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Treatment of Nontraumatic Rotator Cuff Tears A Randomized Controlled Trial with Two Years of Clinical and Imaging Follow-up (2015)
- Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, American Volume
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A register for patients undergoing shoulder surgery – perspectives in training of surgeons (2014)
- European Orthopaedics and Traumatology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Differential contributions of ankle plantarflexors during submaximal isometric muscle action: a PET and EMG study (2014)
- Journal of Electro - myography and Kinesiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Non-traumatic supraspinatus tears: operative treatment is no better than conservative treatment (2014) Shoulder concepts - arthroscopy, arthroplasty & fractures Äärimaa V, Kukkonen J, Lehtinen J, Joukainen A
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Olkanivelen luksaation akuutti- ja jälkihoito (2014)
- Lääkärilehti
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Olkapään jännevaivat – Käypä hoito -suositus (2014) Käypä hoito -suositus: Olkapään jännevaivat Vesa Lepola, Juha Paloneva, Marja-Liisa Huuskonen, Mauri Kallinen, Jaro Karppinen, Kimmo Mattila, Kimmo Mattila, Jukka Raittinen, Jari Rautiainen, Esa-Pekka Takala, Ville Äärimaa,
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - Smoking and operative treatment of rotator cuff tear. (2014)
- Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Treatment of non-traumatic rotator cuff tears: A randomised controlled trial with one-year clinical results. (2014)
- Bone and Joint Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Adverse reaction to metal debris after ReCap-M2A-Magnum large-diameter-head metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty (2013)
- Acta Orthopaedica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Incidence of adverse reaction to metal debris after Birmingham hip resurfacing arthroplasty (2013)
- Suomen ortopedia ja traumatologia
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Investigating minimal clinically important difference for Constant score in patients undergoing rotator cuff surgery (2013)
- Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Olkanivelen epävakauden leikkaushoito TYKS:n kokemusten valossa (2013)
- Duodecim
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Operatively treated traumatic versus non-traumatic rotator cuff ruptures – A registry study (2013)
- Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)