The head of your upper arm bone fits into a rounded socket in your shoulder blade. This socket is called the glenoid. A combination of muscles and tendons keeps your arm bone centered in your shoulder socket. These tissues are called the rotator cuff. They cover the head of your upper ar...
It’s not just a simple joint -- it’s a complex structure of muscles and tendons (which hold your muscles to your bones). It lets you scratch your back, drive your car, or get something off a shelf. But all those moving parts mean things can go wrong, which is why so many peopl...
Some muscles are attached to bones by tendons. Others are attached to other muscles, or to skin (producing the smile, the wink, and other facial expressions, for example). All or part of the walls of hollow internal organs, such as the heart, stomach, intestines, and blood vessels, are...
The muscles and tendons that connect your upper arm bone to your shoulder blade form the rotator cuff in your shoulder. If your rotator cuff tendon becomes trapped under the top bone of the shoulder, it can become inflamed and/or thicken, causing pain. Shoulder tendonitis is most comm...
Your shoulder is the most flexible joint in your body, allowing you to place and rotate your arm in many positions in front, above, to the side and behind your body. Often, shoulder problems involve the ligaments, muscles and tendons rather than the bones. Many shoulder problems are the re...
Shoulder and neck pain is a common and even cleaning windows or reaching for a jar can strain and injure shoulder muscles and tendons, especially in people who are out of condition. Other possible causes for your discomfort are: unnatural sleeping positions, tension and stress, osteoarthritis, in...
As the most flexible joint in the body, the shoulder allows a person to perform many complex actions that include lifting, pushing, and pulling. However, because the shoulder joint has such a wide range of motion, it is a common source of aches and pains. The joint, ligaments, muscles, ...
Along with the above, over time our bodies age, which is called degeneration. This includes the bones, muscles, and tendons of the shoulder. Inflammation from “wear and tear” of the joints results in arthritis, whereas degener...
While MRI investigation showing cases of edema and rotator cuff injury associated with partially teared muscles and tendons. This article was explained that shoulder muscle strain is the main injury arose from wrong training courses in bodybuilding players practitionised heavy wei...
Shoulder symptoms in overhead athletes are related mainly to failure of the kinetic chain. Once the kinetic chain fails, shoulder biomechanics may change, resulting in overstress of specific soft tissues, including tendons, ligaments, and muscles, or at the joint surface. ...