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

Early surgery to repair tears of one of the shoulder rotator cuff muscles provides lasting improvement in strength, function, and other outcomes, reports a study.

"In this new study, supraspinatus tendon cells were harvested from my patients during rotator cuff surgery, isolated and then sent to Albert's lab," Karas said.

Discussion The presence of increased apoptosis and p53 in partial-thickness tears of the supraspinatus tendon is accompanied by features of both degeneration as well as ongoing repair. Apoptosis may ...