On average, about 50% of functional recovery can be expected three months after arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff. If it goes untreated, a smaller rotator cuff tear can grow ...

Older patients who dislocate their shoulder may sustain a large tear of the rotator cuff tendon when they fall. This tendon ...

Left: A bone hole, created in the area where the rotator cuff was originally attached, is irradiated with non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma. Right: The rotator cuff is sutured in the bone hole.

There are three main sections: the identification and description of the symptoms caused by known rotator cuff tears, the impact that these tears had upon the lives of the participants followed by ...

The rotator cuff is a group of four muscles and their ... nonsurgical treatments fail or in cases of significant tears.

This review proposes a model to describe the continuum of the rotator cuff pathology from asymptomatic tendon through full thickness rotator cuff tears. Conclusions The ... understanding of the ...

ORTHO-R is under clinical development by ChitogenX and currently in Phase II for Unspecified Musculoskeletal Disorders.

Design: Plasma samples were obtained at 15 months from surgery from two groups of patients who underwent arthroscopic repair of a rotator cuff tear. In group 1, 30 subjects (14 men, 16 women; mean age ...

Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images for Singapore Sports Hub Anderson had previously undergone surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff tendon and a partially torn labrum. "It happened two months ago ...

The 23-year-old US international recently underwent successful arthroscopic surgery for a labral and rotator cuff repair in his right shoulder, sidelining him for an expected 4-5 months.