The University of Calgary’s Sport Medicine Centre has launched the Shoulder Care Access Project (SCAP) Clinic. The clinic helps patients with shoulder pain and injuries to navigate access to specialist care using a simple and efficient system that uses a self-referral questionnaire. “For at least two-thirds of our patients, we know what we’re dealing with before they even walk into the clinic,” said UCalgary Professor Dr Nick Mohtadi. “We can then manage them effectively and move them down whichever path is appropriate.”
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