And if you find that you can't raise your arm as high as usual or struggle to get comfortable, you may be dealing with a torn ...

Injuries to the rotator cuff can occur in a fall onto an outstretched arm, as happened in your case. This can damage not only ...

We use our shoulders for almost every upper body exercise, as well as in our daily ... side, and rear), rotator cuff, and supporting muscles of the upper back. The programme should be performed ...

The article, published in the Journal of Orthopaedics, looks at massive irreparable rotator cuff tears (MIRCT) and compares the outcomes ... Orthopaedic Surgery faculty members in the Sports and ...

St. Joseph Health’s orthopedic team regularly treats rotator cuff disease and rotator cuff tears. Rotator cuff tears are usually seen in two types of patients. A young person who suffers a ...

I landed on my hands with my arms stretched out, and now my right shoulder has started aching. My boyfriend thinks it’s a rotator cuff injury. I’ve only heard of that in baseball players. What is the ...

Background Pathology of the soft tissues of the shoulder including the musculotendinous rotator cuff and subacromial bursa are extremely common and are a principal cause of pain and suffering.

I tried so hard to go the conservative way to heal my shoulder, but it is time to have shoulder surgery. As I have mentioned so many times before, I was very hard on my body in my top sport days of ...

Injuries are common, especially where tendons and bones connect. In Japan, rotator cuff tears affect approximately one in four people over age 50, and reports state that even after surgery ...