This year in the USA around eight million people will visit their doctor complaining of shoulder problems. Between fifty five and sixty percent of those will be diagnosed as having a rotator cuff problem. I know it’s no comfort to find that you are only one of millions but at least it means that shoulder [...]
The phrase rotator cuff injury covers a huge range of potential shoulder problems but they all have one thing in common which is that one of the four muscles in the rotator cuff has become damaged either as the result of good old fashioned wear and tear or through it being overloaded perhaps by lifting [...]
There are quite a few shoulder problems that can occur in any individual life time. Apart from injuries arising from accidents or traumas such as shoulder dislocations or rotator cuff tears, the most common problems faced by people affected by a shoulder condition are describable in two groups. On one hand there is the Impingement [...]
The rotator cuff is a collective name for a group of 4 small muscles attached to the head of the arm and the shoulder bones. Due to the vast range of motion allowed to the arm, the shoulder socket is very shallow, so evolution has developed this system of 4 muscles around the shoulder joint [...]