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.

And in the coronal plane, parallel to the supraspinatus tendon ... “You have to correct for the actual size of the rotator cuff attachment to the Hill-Sachs and the functional availability ...

3D Illustration, Muscle is a soft tissue, Muscle cells contain proteins , producing a contraction that changes both the length and the shape of the cell. Muscles function to produce force and motion.

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

"Rehabilitation and physical therapy routines address areas such as periscapular muscle weakness, correcting scapular posture and improve rotator cuff muscle strength and endurance." In ...

This review proposes a model to describe the continuum of the rotator cuff pathology from asymptomatic tendon through full thickness rotator cuff tears. Conclusions The pathoaetiology of rotator cuff ...

Rotator cuff pathology was the most prevalent pathology on ultrasound (50%), with supraspinatus the most commonly affected rotator cuff component, accounting for 86 of the 102 cases (85% ...