Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With the advancement of arthroscopic surgery in the repair of rotator cuff tears, the gold standard of open ...

For decades, rotator cuff surgery has been treated as a mechanical problem. A tendon tears. A surgeon brings it back to bone. Anchors and sutures hold it in place. The operation succeeds if the repair ...

Forty-eight patients with massive rotator cuff tears were treated with our standardized five-step technique of arthroscopic guided mini-open transosseous repair with bursal augmentation. MRCT was ...

Both arthroscopic and mini-open rotator cuff repair techniques result in similar early functional improvement in patients treated for small and medium tears, a retrospective study found. However, ...

Rotator cuff tears are among the most common and debilitating musculoskeletal injuries, frequently causing chronic pain, reduced shoulder mobility, and a high risk of re-injury even after surgical ...

Rotator cuff tears are common and are associated with shoulder pain, disability, and dysfunction. Previous studies that have reported different arthroscopic techniques are controversial. A network ...

A randomized control trial led by two Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry members has shown benefits to getting patients moving earlier after surgery to repair the rotator cuff—the group of muscles and ...

A technique for repairing rotator cuff injuries developed by University of Adelaide academics has delivered game-changing results for people with shoulder pain. About 10,000 repairs to the rotator ...

The rotator cuff is the group of four muscles that aid shoulder movement and stabilize the joint. It’s a commonly injured area. Every time you move your shoulder, you’re using your rotator cuff to ...

Baseball pitchers and rotator cuff problems seem to go hand-in-hand despite the rotator cuff being much smaller than other muscles about the shoulder and upper back. The four small muscles that make ...

A rotator cuff tear is a partial or complete severing of the rotator cuff tendons in the shoulder, usually due to injury. A strain is different, as it involves an overstretch of the tendons. The ...