Older patients who dislocate their shoulder may sustain a large tear of the rotator cuff tendon when they fall. This tendon ...

Acromioclavicular joint (Figure 5a) and GHJ pathology were the most common x-ray findings (both 17%) and calcification involving the rotator cuff was ... for the diagnostic injections are ...

“This study suggests that non-surgical treatments such as BMC with platelet injection are a viable alternative treatment option for rotator cuff tears,” Centeno and colleagues wrote in the study.

tendinopathy tendinosis tendon treatment ... with local corticosteroid injections, GTN appears to be less effective in improving pain (level 3 evidence). Two studies investigated the effects of ...

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, Michael L. Pearl, MD, spoke about the use of lower trapezius transfer for patients with irreparable rotator cuff tears and no active ...

4 Pain in both shoulders during the preceding 30 days. 5 History of pain in the rotator cuff region lasting for at least 3 months, plus pain during the past month preceding the examination ...

Background Recent investigation of human tissue and cells from positional tendons such as the rotator cuff has clarified the importance of inflammation in the development and progression of tendon ...