YOU DIAGNOSED ME AS HAVING SOMETHING CALLED ROTATOR INTERVAL TEARS. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
I am so glad you asked. The rotator interval is the part of the shoulder that consists of the front part of the supraspinatus cuff tendon, the biceps long head’s exit point from the shoulder, [...]
SHOULDER PAIN REFERRED FROM THE NECK
Many of the nerves that come the spinal cord in the neck have branches that send fibers to the shoulder; irritation of these nerves, because of the way nerves work (often causing a phenomenom [...]
SUBACROMIAL BURSITIS
While almost all rotator cuff tears have an associated subacromial bursitis, the bursa can become inflammed without the cuff being torn. This often happens with overuse or even with sleeping in [...]
ACROMIOCLAVICULAR (AC) JOINT PROBLEMS
The AC joint is a particularly troublesome little area that causes a myriad of shoulder pain syndromes. Pain from the AC joint can run up into the neck or down into the hand, but is usually [...]
SHOULDER INSTABILITY
This problem is very common in athletes, especially overhead and collision/contact athletes. The variations of shoulder instability are too great to discuss here exhaustively, but are described [...]
ADHESIVE CAPSULITIS (ALSO CALLED FROZEN SHOULDER)
Frozen shoulder is one of the most painful problems a person can have with their shoulder. In most cases, there is no known reason that it started, but the problem rather quickly results in [...]
SHOULDER OSTEOARTHRITIS (WEAR OF THE GLENOHUMERAL JOINT)
The articular cartilage that lines our joints is truly incredible. It is made up of multiple layers and is rigidly fixed to the underlying bone. Loss of articular cartilage manifests as [...]
WHAT IS THE ROTATOR CUFF AND WHAT GOES WRONG WITH IT?
There are 4 deep muscle tendon units that are interwoven to some degree and their collective job is to take the torque out of the shoulder to keep the humeral head centeredon the glenoid and also [...]
