The rotator cuff is a set of four smaller muscles in the shoulder that rotate the upper arm. A rotator cuff tear happens when the tendon part of the muscle tears away from the bone of the upper arm.

There were 165 patients assigned to simultaneous rotator cuff repair with biceps tenodesis and 370 patients were treated with only rotator cuff repair.

An injection of a patient's bone marrow stem cells during rotator cuff surgery significantly improved healing and tendon durability, according to a new study.

Researchers prospectively collected surgical data on 183 patients who underwent arthroscopic rotator cuff surgery for impingement syndrome, rotator cuff tears and also of those without bicep ...

Early surgery to fix tears in a shoulder rotator cuff muscle improves strength, function and other outcomes in the long term, a new study from France finds.

For people at risk for rotator cuff injuries, doctors may suggest performing regular shoulder exercises, taking frequent breaks at work if their jobs require repetitive arm and shoulder motions ...

Rotator cuff tears can be career-ending for athletes, but they’re not exactly fun for the rest of us either. The painful problem involves the separation of tendons from the shoulder joint, and ...

In some cases, a joint replacement may be necessary. But due to the high physical demands on rotator cuffs and the complex anatomy of tendon, re-tears after surgery are common. Little wants to ...

The most common cause of biceps tendinosis or tenosynovitis (inflammation of the tendon sheath) is primary impingement, which refers to a mechanical impingement under the coracoacromial arch.

I looked at the MRI reports you sent me and found that, unfortunately, in both shoulders, you have a full thickness, acute tear of the supraspinatus tendon (one of the four rotator cuff muscles).

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