Published results showed delaminated rotator cuff tears had significantly greater tendon retraction and a higher amount of fatty muscle infiltration of the supraspinatus and infraspinatus. Philipp ...

Researchers at the University Hospital of Munich found that absorbable collagen-based scaffolds seeded with autologous tenocytes can regenerate rotator cuff tendon tissue. This approach may lead ...

Introduction The relationship between rotator cuff tendon structure and pain symptoms is imperfect and icompletely understood.2 The inability to gather tendon-matched and age-matched control tissue ...

"We know that the supraspinatus, which is one of your rotator cuff tendons, can generate a maximum force of about 300 Newtons," Kevin Kaplan, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon at Jacksonville ...

Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman was placed on the 10-day disabled list Sunday with what was reportedly diagnosed as a rotator cuff strain.

Surgical repair involves sewing the tendons together or to the bone to allow the rotator cuff to function once again as a stabilizer in the shoulder.

June 28, 2004 -- A two-week course of indomethacin or celecoxib significantly inhibits tendon-to-bone healing in rotator cuff repair for eight weeks, according to the results of a preliminary ...

The rotator cuff is a grouping of tendons that keep the ball of your upper-arm bone in your shoulder socket – and, as many people will know from first-hand experience, it can get torn away from ...

In a typical rotator cuff injury, one or more of the tendons which connect the shoulder muscles to the head of the humerus (upper arm bone) get partially or fully torn.

Pain on movement or sharp pain on lifting can indicate that you have a problem with the rotator cuff muscles, and/or their tendons.

Researchers used a novel imaging technique and discovered a previously unknown fibrous architecture between the rotator cuff tendons and their bony attachments in the shoulder.

Three stages of rotator cuff disease are usually described. The first stage occurs in patients younger than 25 years with hemorrhage and edema of the tendon and bursa.