SLAP tear surgery is a procedure used to repair injured shoulder cartilage. It involves making small incisions around the shoulder joint and using specialized instruments to repair or reconstruct the ...
SLUCare Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery specialists developed the following physical therapy protocols for SLUCare clinicians to use when recommending treatment and rehab for SLUCare patients.
Background Labral repair and biceps tenodesis are routine operations for superior labrum anterior posterior (SLAP) lesion of the shoulder, but evidence of their efficacy is lacking. We evaluated the ...
An unstable shoulder joint can be the cause or the result of a labral tear. “Labral” refers to the glenoid labrum – a ring of cartilage that surrounds the base of the shoulder joint. Injuries to the ...
Tears to the glenoid labrum—cartilage tissue that lines the shoulder where the arm joins—can be repaired with arthroscopic surgery, which significantly weakens the joint and involves a lengthy ...
TREATED. THE LABRUM IS A RIM OF CARTILAGE AROUND THE SHOULDER SOCKET THAT STABILIZES THE JOINT. AND AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, INJURING IT CAN BE EXTREMELY PAINFUL. DOCTOR GREGORY GASPARO SAYS THAT OVERUSE ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Anterior shoulder instability is a common shoulder pathology, occurring in 1% to 2% of the general population.