This tendon is vital for pushing off with the foot. The Achilles helps you stand on your tiptoes and push off when starting a foot race. Your rotator cuff is located in the shoulder and is ...
Ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the shoulder can confirm rotator-cuff tears and provide information on size and location, tendon retraction, and muscle atrophy and fatty ...
The shoulder is a shallow ball and socket joint. The tendons that hold it together are injured so frequently that rotator cuff repair has become the second-ranking major ambulatory surgery in the ...
Background Recent investigation of human tissue and cells from positional tendons such as the rotator cuff has clarified the importance of inflammation in the development and progression of tendon ...