Shoulder pain may keep your clinic full, but it’s also keeping hospital CFOs up at night. With more than 460,000 rotator cuff ...

Researchers randomly assigned 58 patients with acute traumatic rotator cuff tears mainly involving the supraspinatus to receive either surgical repair (n=32) or physiotherapy (n=26). Researchers ...

W. Jaap Willems, MD, PhD, of Amsterdam, told Orthopaedics Today Europe smaller tears work better with single-row repair, particularly tears of the supraspinatus tendon.

An acute, full-thickness tear in a person with an otherwise normal shoulder is usually treated with immediate surgery to prevent muscle atrophy and further joint degeneration.

Preservation Versus Release of Normal Long Head of Biceps Tendon in Repair of Isolated Stage-1 Supraspinatus Tears: Preservation Leads to Slightly Lower Constant-Murley Scores and More Reoperations.

New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill indicates that treatment with anabolic steroids may improve surgical repair of massive or recurrent tears of the shoulder's ...

An acute, full-thickness tear in a person with an otherwise normal shoulder is usually treated with immediate surgery to prevent muscle atrophy and further joint degeneration. Full-thickness tears in ...