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U | A rotator cuff
injury is a tear or inflammation of the rotator cuff
tendons in the shoulder.
A rotator cuff injury is a painful strain
in the tendons and muscles surrounding your shoulder
joint. Your rotator cuff is made up of four muscles
and their attached tendons. The muscles connect your
upper arm bone (humerus) with your shoulder blade.
They also help hold the ball of your upper arm bone
firmly in your shoulder socket, as though holding a
golf ball on a tee. The combination results in the
greatest range of motion of any joint in your body. As you get older, your risk of a rotator cuff
injury increases. Causes of the injury may include
poor posture, falling, lifting and repetitive
overhead arm activities. These may include throwing
a baseball, reaching up to work on a car on a rack
or placing items on shelves above your head. The
injury is also common among people whose jobs or
hobbies include heavy demands on their shoulders,
such as athletes and people in the construction
trades.
Treatment Most of
the time, treatment for rotator cuff injuries involves exercise therapy.
Your doctor or a physical therapist will talk with you about specific
exercises designed to help heal your injury, improve the flexibility of
your rotator cuff and shoulder muscles and provide balanced shoulder
muscle strength. Depending on the severity of your injury, physical
therapy may take from three weeks to several months. Other
treatments may include:
Steroid
injections.
Of the many different steroids, doctors commonly use corticosteroids
by injection to relieve inflammation and pain.
Surgery.
If you have a large tear in your rotator cuff, you may need surgery
to repair the tear. Sometimes during this kind of surgery, doctors
may also remove a bone spur or calcium deposits.
Rotator cuff injury
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