Essays, videos & faculty notes
Education is part of the practice.
Dr Coory teaches at international shoulder fellowship courses, mentors visiting orthopaedic fellows in Australia, and contributes to research at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Insights is where that teaching work appears in writing.
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Long-form essays paired with video
How a CT scan becomes a shoulder replacement: inside Mako planning
The robotic shoulder replacement is not the operation. The plan is the operation. The robot is the instrument that executes the plan. A deep-dive on how a CT becomes a surgical plan.
Read and watch Essay · Long-form + videoThe biology of rotator cuff repair: why technique has hit a ceiling
Two decades of cuff repair has been about technique. The ceiling we are bumping against now is the biology of the tendon being repaired. Essay paired with the YouTube long-form video.
Read and watch Essay · Interactive calculatorThe Rotator Cuff Healing Index — and what we do when biology is against us
The ROHI is a six-parameter score (Kwon 2019) that predicts which cuff repairs are at risk of not healing. Embedded calculator, plus the patient-level, surgical and post-operative biological-augmentation strategies that change the odds.
Read & calculate Essay · Long-form + videoShoulder instability: the age-at-first-dislocation rule
If you are under 25 and dislocate your shoulder once, the chance of doing it again is over 80%. The Bankart-vs-Latarjet decision, the bone-loss threshold, and the new allograft technique.
Read and watch Essay · Long-form + videoRemplissage in shoulder instability — the missing middle between Bankart and Latarjet
Patrick Denard, Stephen Burkhart and Alexandre Lädermann have argued for almost a decade that remplissage is dramatically underused. The glenoid-track concept, the MacDonald RCT, and the modern decision algorithm for off-track Hill-Sachs lesions with subcritical bone loss.
Read & watch Essay · Long-form + videoWhy won’t my shoulder move? — the frozen shoulder in plain English
The frozen shoulder is self-limiting but takes 18–24 months. The treatment decisions along the way matter more than most patients are told. What injection is for, what hydrodilatation is for, and when arthroscopic release earns its place.
Read & watch Essay · Long-form + 2 videosTendon retraction: why a chronic cuff tear is a different operation
The fresh cuff tear and the chronic retracted cuff tear are two different operations. The repair-versus-transfer-versus-replace decision tree, with the arthroscopic view of what retraction actually looks like.
Read and watchFaculty notes & updates
From the conference floor and the consulting room
Three takeaways from the Stryker Shoulder Arthroplasty Masters Meeting, Sydney 2026
Acromial stress fractures and the ultrasound idea, perioperative nutrition, and early Australian Mako shoulder learning-curve data.
Read the notes May 2026 · Deep-divePerioperative nutrition and amino-acid augmentation in orthopaedic surgery
ESPEN protein targets, leucine and the mTOR pathway, HMB, vitamin D, immunonutrition — anchored on the Norris/Coory et al 2026 cost-of-illness paper.
Read the essay May 2026 · For GPs & case managersWorkCover Queensland — why the first four weeks shape the outcome
The disability curve, the RTW QLD pathway, and the secondary psychological-injury risk that grows with delay. The single most modifiable variable is the time to specialist review.
Read the essay May 2026 · A note from Dr CooryNotes from Singapore and Sydney: biology, bone loss, and peptides
Three takeaways from the Smith+Nephew Inspire Shoulder course and the Sydney faculty week — on the biology of cuff repair, the moving threshold for glenoid bone augmentation, and the peptides question.
Read more May 2026 · A note from Dr CooryBefore I look at your imaging
The first question I ask every new shoulder patient is not about the MRI. It is about the life the shoulder is supposed to serve.
Read more May 2026 · A note from Dr CooryOn the shoulder that was "too complex"
Patients are sometimes referred to me after being told their case is too complex for local management. Those referrals are not a problem. They are the practice.
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Unscrubbed & the video library
Unscrubbed Episode 1: Welcome to Unscrubbed
The first episode of the practice podcast. Dr Coory and his subspecialty-trained nurse practitioner Jake introduce the show — the combined-clinic model, the questions patients actually ask in the rooms, and what is coming.
Read & watchUnscrubbed Ep 2: AI in Medicine with Panacea AI
Joe and Jake host Panacea AI to map where clinical AI actually is in May 2026 — the medical scribe, radiology, decision support, and the AHPRA framework.
Read & watchUnscrubbed Ep 3: Healthcare Hot Topics
Round-up format. The topics shaping Australian healthcare in May 2026 — GP workforce, Medicare, private health, hospital pay deals, AI in clinical practice.
Read & watch Video libraryLong-form video explainers
Patient-education videos and procedure walk-throughs — mirrored from YouTube with searchable on-page transcripts.
WatchThe Monday morning that means more than the X-ray
Recovery does not end when the imaging looks acceptable. It ends when you are back to the life you had the surgery for.
Read more May 2026 · Practice updateWelcome to drjoecoory.com.au
Why we built a standalone home for the practice, what it means for patients and referrers, and how Insights will work.
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Education and training, written down.
The practice has a teaching responsibility. Dr Coory contributes faculty time at international fellowship courses, mentors visiting orthopaedic fellows through the Bateman Orthopaedics fellowship and the Australian Orthopaedic Association network, and participates in research with the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Insights is where that work lives in writing — long-form notes from courses, technique observations, considered patient-education essays, and updates from the research network. Three commitments shape what appears here:
- Specific over general. Every post addresses one technique, one question, or one teaching point. Not a roundup of clinical news.
- Honest about uncertainty. Where the evidence is thin or the field is moving, the post says so. Where there is a defensible position, the post takes it.
- Permanent and citeable. Insights lives here on Dr Coory's domain — not on a social platform that controls what stays visible — so the work is searchable, citeable, and accessible long after the original conversation.