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Shoulder stiffness is a general term encompassing a spectrum of pathology. The first recorded description of a stiff shoulder was reported by Duplay2 in 1872 in his description of a ‘scapulohumeral pe...
Reddy et al.1 compared subjects with subacromial impingement and subjects with normal shoulders with respect to muscle activity. Fifteen subjects in each group were studied by means of fine-wire elect...
Subacromial Impingement Examination Tests
Hawkins-Kennedy test: Shoulder is flexed to 90 degrees and then internally rotated with elbow flexed to 90 degrees. Positive test indicates pain with intern...
Case of the Week: Atraumatic Lateral Shoulder Pain in a 59F
CC: Atraumatic Lateral Shoulder Pain in a 59F.
HPI: This 59-year-old female has had a 1 year atraumatic history of lateral shoulder pain. ...
Research Articles of the Week
Subacromial Impingement Definition
Rotator cuff related pain has many different names. There’s rotator cuff tendinopathy, rotator cuff disease, rotator cuff related dis...
The Dunning-Krugger Effect
Aristotle famously wrote, "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."
As clinicians, as we gain experience our confidence follows the graph.
Initially, our...
The superior glenohumeral ligament is under the greatest stress when the humeral head and arm are in which of the following positions:
a. Anteriorly translated with the arm in 90 degrees of abduction...
Glenohumeral Joint Anatomy
(Image Credit: By Henry Vandyke Carter - Henry Gray (1918) Anatomy of the Human Body (See "Book" section below)Bartleby.com: Gray's Anatomy, Plate 326, Publi...
Orthopaedic Special Test
Spurling Test
We can recreate the patient’s radicular symptoms by stretching the nerve root, such as coughing, sneezing, Valsalva, and certain cervical movements and positio...
Case of the Week
Upper Trapezius Pain in 49F
Image Credit: By RSatUSZ - PACS UniversitätsSpitalZürich, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
CC: Upper trapezius pain in a 49F after a traumatic inju...
The Screw Displacement Axis (SDA) method offers a unique advantage when analyzing glenohumeral joint motion. It utilizes the concept of either the intersection point or the midpoint of the common perp...
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