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Rotator Cuff Tear
Definition
All 4 tendons that surround the shoulders togetther called rotator cuff. And a Rotator cuff tear explains the status when these tendons are ruptured.
Cause
- Exterior shock
- Degenerating changes
- Various reasons such as an infection cause a repetitious fretting from weeks to months.
- After holding heavy stuff or tripping
Symptoms
- No particular damage or subtle discomfort or pain from time to time but it does right down the hill after an intense
movement or a small damage.
- Shoulder pain, frequently at the deltoid above the arm
Treatments
- Non-surgical: Medication, Injection, Extracorporeal Shock Wave
- Surgical: Arthroendoscopy (Acromioplasty, Myorrhaphy)
Rotator Cuff Tear
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Calcification Tendinitis
Definition
It is an inflammatory disease that breaks out a calcinosis on the shoulder tendon. It happens often on the upper rotator cuff.
Cause
- Severe shoulder pain, uncertain of its cause
- Degenerating changes, overuse, problem with metabolism, rotor blood vein decrease
- Overuse, rotor blood vein decrease is the cause
Symptoms
- Main symptom is the shoulder pain and it could limit on exercises that one could do.
In some cases, because of frozen shoulders, the articulation exercise could be even more limited.
- Usually the pain outbreaks when holding arm to the front or to the side
- Dysomnia due to pain
Treatments
- Non-surgical: Taking rest, stabilization, Extracorporeal Shock Wave, Medication, Injection, Exercise
- Surgical: Arthroscopic calcification removal, acromioplasty
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Frozen shoulders
Definition
It is a disease that the shoulders get hardened with the joint membrane going through degenerating changes and breaks out infection breaks out. It usually happens in 50’s although these days the age keeps going down.
Cause
- Degenerating changes around the shoulder joints
- Lack of exercise
- Bad posture or daily habits
Symptoms
- Dysomnia from shoulder pain
- Difficult in everyday life such as combing or dressing, due to shoulder pain
Treatments
- Non-surgical: Medication, Injection, Esercise
- Surgical: Curve after general anesthesia, an internal version and an abdominal version after an extroversion
- It is a good sign to hear or feel the contracture unwind.
An intense physical therapy is needed within 48 hour after the operation.
Tennis Elbow
Definition
It’s called Tennis elbow since it happens a lot to the tennis players. The pain occurs when one of the projected parts that is outward at the end of humerus gets weak, get infected or a change occurs that cause pain. It is called lateral epicondylitis of humerus in professional terms.
Cause
- Caused by a continuous tension at the elbow muscle
- Like Tennis of golf, the disease occurs when adding force repetitiously on a stretched arm
- The same thing happens when holding something heavy, arms stretched, palm down
- Sudden immoderate work, continuous tension in arms make the muscle on the bone weak and cause pain on the elbow area.
Symptoms
- When there is pain and an oppressive pain on the bulging part of the outside of the elbow,
it is a symptom of this disease. When it gets more serious, the pain could be delivered down to the hand.
- The pain can break out continuously but it could only happen when lifting a heavy stuff or picking up things,
or when shaking or twisting wrist.
Treatments
- Non-surgical: Medication, Injection, Extracorporeal shock wave
- Surgical:arthroendoscopy