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Rotator Cuff Repair Surgery: Everything You Need to Know
A rotator cuff repair is a procedure in which torn tendons and/or muscles surrounding the shoulder are surgically fixed. Rotator cuff tears can cause pain and weakness.1 Sometimes these tears can heal without surgery, but severe rotator cuff damage can be permanent without surgical intervention.
5 Exercises for Tennis Elbow Rehab
The first steps in treating tennis elbow are reducing inflammation and resting the irritated muscles and tendons. Ice and compression can help. Then you can begin gentle exercises to strengthen the muscles and prevent a recurrence.
Why Shoulder Bursitis Happens and How You Can Treat It
Shoulder bursitis is inflammation of a bursa, a fluid-filled sac, in the shoulder joint. The bursa provides padding between bones, tendons, and ligaments to reduce friction and improve joint movement throughout the body. There are multiple bursae in the shoulder, but this condition most commonly affects one called the subacromial bursa.
How To Treat and Heal Extensor Tendonitis
Extensor tendonitis is an inflammatory condition of the tendons on the back of the hands or the top of the feet. These tendons attach to muscles that straighten your fingers and lift up your toes and the top of your foot.
Physical Therapy for a Colles Fracture
A Colles fracture is a break in one of the forearm bones near the wrist that commonly requires physical therapy after a period of immobilization.
Free bone graft transfer may yield similar outcomes as Latarjet for shoulder instability
According to published results, free bone graft transfer and the Latarjet procedure demonstrated clinically similar outcomes for patients with anterior shoulder instability and glenoid bone loss at 5 years.
UCL repair with internal bracing may yield faster return to sport vs. Tommy John surgery
UCL repair with internal bracing yielded faster return to practice and faster return to competition vs. UCL reconstruction. Both UCL repair and reconstruction had high rates of return to sport.
How do you treat rotator-cuff tears?
Shoulder symptoms led to an average of 9.6 million physician visits in 2015 and 2016 in the United States. The most common cause of those shoulder symptoms? Rotator-cuff disorders.
Shoulder Blade Pain Symptoms and Causes
Shoulder blade pain is usually caused by a muscle strain or a bone condition like osteoarthritis. It's not typically serious, but in rare instances, shoulder blade pain may be a sign of a severe condition, like a heart attack or cancer.
What You Should Know About Smith’s Fractures
The Smith’s fracture is a specific type of injury to the forearm bone (the radius) near the wrist joint. In this injury, there is displacement of the bone such that the wrist joint rests in front of its normal anatomic position.
