Your infraspinatus is one of the four muscles that make up your rotator cuff. It plays a part in the movement and stability of your shoulder joint. You put your shoulder muscles to the test in ...

The infraspinatus is one of four muscles that make up the rotator cuff, which helps your arm and shoulder move and stay stable. Your infraspinatus is in the back of your shoulder. It attaches the ...

The muscles of the rotator cuff are the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis. The supraspinatus muscle allows abduction of the arm. Test its function using the empty-can test.

The shoulder muscles are responsible for maintaining the widest range of motion of any joint in your body. This flexibility is also what makes the shoulder prone to instability and injury.

A normal anatomy of the rotator cuff consists of four muscle-tendon units including the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis. Each of these muscles originates on the body ...

When we examined the patient’s shoulder, we saw severe atrophy of the right infraspinatus muscle (Figure 1A) with 4/5 strength in external rotation. O’Brien compression test (resisted shoulder flexion ...

Background Infraspinatus syndrome is a condition of painless weakness and atrophy of the infraspinatus muscle that results from suprascapular neuropathy. Objectives Survey the effects of a short term ...

Results—The electrodiagnostic study showed a severe suprascapular neuropathy in four players which affected only the infraspinatus muscle. In each of these four players, suprascapular nerve entrapment ...

The individual muscles of the cuff help to provide ... The integrity of the infraspinatus attachment to the greater tuberosity of the humerus is examined by having the patient isometrically ...