The shoulder is a shallow ball and socket joint. The tendons that hold it together are injured so frequently that rotator cuff repair has become the second-ranking major ambulatory surgery in the ...

A woman whose car was involved in a collision on a roundabout with a vehicle driven by an American tourist has lost her High ...

Codman, E. A. (Ernest Amory), 1869-1940.

The subscapularis rarely degenerates, and when it does it degenerates moderately, even when its tendon is not torn ... Recurrence of infraspinatus tear was never observed, but recurrence occurred in ...

One concern about cortisone injections is a ruptured tendon. Cortisone may temporarily weaken a tendon ... In vivo toxicity of local anesthetics and corticosteroids on supraspinatus tenocyte cell ...

X-ray and Ultrasound Scan The prevalence of the pathologies identified on x-ray and ultrasound are presented in Figures 3 and 4. Acromioclavicular joint (Figure 5a) and GHJ pathology were the most ...

In some rare instances, tendons can snap or rupture. Conditions that make a rupture more likely include the injection of steroids into a tendon, certain diseases (such as gout or ...

Miami Heat guard Dru Smith has suffered another season-ending injury, this one a torn Achilles in his left leg. Smith got ...

A bicep bulge is an injury that typically results from a tendon tear and is sometimes referred to as a “Popeye deformity.” When one of the tendons attached to the bicep muscle is torn, it causes the ...