Linda, a 55-year-old cleaning woman, gradually developed right shoulder and right upper arm pain, especially when washing the windows. She had difficulty lifting her right arm and even combing her ...

Rotator cuff tendinitis, or tendonitis, affects the tendons and muscles that help move your shoulder joint. If you have tendinitis, it means that your tendons are inflamed or irritated. Rotator cuff ...

The shoulder is a very complex joint due to its very extensive range of motion. Unlike other joints, the shoulder is very mobile, with motion in front of the body, behind the body and above the head.

Rotator cuff tendinitis is inflammation of the connective tissues that help the shoulder to move. The condition is also called an impinged shoulder or impingement syndrome. This form of tendinitis can ...

Joseph Bennington-Castro is a science writer based in Hawaii. He has written well over a thousand articles for the general ...

An assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine at Mount Sinai, Dr. Jonathan Kirschner is a physiatrist who specializes in sports and interventional spine medicine, musculoskeletal ultrasound and ...

Background Pathology of the soft tissues of the shoulder including the musculotendinous rotator cuff and subacromial bursa are extremely common and are a principal cause of pain and suffering.

Our main findings were that weight-related factors, especially abdominal obesity, are associated with shoulder pain in both genders. Abdominal obesity was also associated with chronic rotator cuff ...

Tendonitis is pain in or around a tendon, which is a band of strong tissue that connects a muscle to a bone. Tendons bend, stretch, and twist to help joints and muscles move. They can become inflamed ...