Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving has been battling a shoulder condition known as impingement. What is it and how long will it take to recover?

July 7, 2004 — Topical glyceryl trinitrate significantly improves pain scores, range of motion, internal rotation impingement, muscular force, and outcome in patients with chronic supraspinatus ...

If you experience pain from cross-body or overhead movements, you might have shoulder impingement. Take on these strengthening and corrective drills to help.

Impingement syndrome is when the rotator cuff tendons (supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor and subscapularis) become trapped in the shoulder joint. Repeated impingement can lead to ...

Weakness of the external rotators—supraspinatus, infraspinatus, and teres minor—along with other muscles acting on the scapula is also common. Internal impingement can be identified through imaging by ...

Neer [1] described the impingement sign in 1972. To elicit the sign, the examiner passively forward-elevates the patient's arm while depressing and stabilizing the acromion with the opposite hand.

Background Tendinopathy commonly occurs in tendons with large in vivo loading demands like the Achilles tendon (AT) and supraspinatus tendon (SST). In addition to differences in their local anatomic ...