Purpose: To review the evidence for the effectiveness of therapeutic exercise for the treatment of full thickness (including massive and inoperable) tears of the rotator cuff. Relevance: There is ...

Rotator cuff tendon tears, the most common shoulder injuries, are typically diagnosed mainly through MRI, but can also be seen on ultrasound (US), a much less costly test that currently requires ...

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Partial-thickness tears can be on the articular surface, on the bursal side of the tendon, or intratendinous. We are especially interested in tears of the articular side coined PASTA lesions (“partial ...

A full thickness skin graft is a type of skin graft used help heal larger areas of lost or damaged skin. It may involve use of your skin, donor, skin, or synthetic skin.

Type of participants We will include studies that focus on patients with full-thickness (complete) tear of the rotator cuff (mainly supraspinatus tendon) who undergo arthroscopic rotator cuff repair ...

A full-thickness skin graft is a fully detached piece of skin taken from one body area and placed over a wound elsewhere. It consists of the full thickness of the epidermis and dermis layers of skin.

The blinded, multi-centre RCT compared the healing rate of full-thickness rotator cuff tears repaired with and without augmentation with the REGENETEN Bioinductive Implant. In total, 124 patients ...

As for surgery techniques, patients with full-thickness tears underwent rotator cuff repair with single-row technique, via either an arthroscopic or mini-open approach; patients without full-thickness ...