Shoulder symptoms led to an average of 9.6 million physician visits in 2015 and 2016 in the United States. The most common ...

Approximately 40% of all rotator cuff tears are classified as "massive rotator cuff tears" that may require surgery. However, there are some situations in which surgery is not recommended for a ...

Oxford Shoulder Score = OSS. 1. Please tell me all about your rotator cuff tear/shoulder? (follow up questions to find out when and and how the tear happened and obtain narrative history from ...

Dr. Will Van der Reis, orthopedic surgery and sports medicine physician at the Queen’s Medical Center-West O’ahu explained that the rotator cuff consists of two big groups of muscles in the shoulder.

Kim and colleagues performed a prospective, randomized controlled trial of 86 patients with full-thickness rotator cuff tears of larger than 2 cm who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff repair ...

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.

Pearl, MD, spoke about the use of lower trapezius transfer for patients with irreparable rotator cuff tears and no active external rotation. “It’s not a good operation for pain or if they have ...

qmul.ac.uk Objective In this study, the serum triglycerides and total serum cholesterol levels in patients with rotator cuff tear were determined. Design Frequency-matched case-control study. Setting ...

There are three main sections: the identification and description of the symptoms caused by known rotator cuff tears, the impact that these tears had upon the lives of the participants followed by ...