Both partial rotator cuff tears and complete, full-thickness rotator cuff tears (FTRCTs) can make arm movements difficult and cause sharp pain or a dull ache in the shoulder that worsens at night.

A technique for repairing rotator cuff injuries developed by University of Adelaide academics has delivered game-changing ...

and tears were the most common pathological finding in all rotator cuff components accounting for 41 of the 61 cases (67%) of rotator cuff pathology. Partial thickness tears involving the ...

and colleagues randomly assigned 99 patients with full- or high-grade partial-thickness rotator cuff tears to receive either a standard anchor (n = 49) or the BioWick anchor (Zimmer Biomet ...

The tear is commonly small (partial tear) but can be large to the point of rupture. Full-thickness rotator cuff tears in siblings are significantly more likely to progress over a period of five years ...

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

Partial thickness tears revealed significantly more satellite cells and proliferative activity than full-thickness tears. There was no detectable apoptosis using an antibody recognising active caspase ...