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Sprains and Strains
An injury to a ligament is called a sprain, and an injury to muscle or tendon is called a strain. Sprains and strains may be caused by repetitive movements or a single stressful incident. Symptoms and signs include pain and swelling. Though treatment depends upon the extent and location of the injury, rest, ice, compression, and elevation are key elements of treatment.
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Rotator Cuff Tear and Injury
Rotator cuff injury is damage to any of the four tendons that stabilize the shoulder joint. Shoulder pain and tenderness are common symptoms. Rotator cuff disease treatment depends on the severity of the shoulder injury.
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What Are the Symptoms of a Torn Tendon in the Shoulder?
Symptoms of a shoulder tendon tear or rotator cuff tear may include dull pain, tenderness, swelling, weakness, or stiffness.
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What Is the Best Exercise for a Rotator Cuff Injury?
Rotator cuff exercises can help relieve shoulder pain, strengthen your muscles, and improve flexibility. Here are 5 of the best exercises for rotator cuff injuries.
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What Are Shoulder Muscles Called?
Shoulder muscles are required for movements of the upper limb. They also give the shoulders their characteristic shape. The shoulder has multiple muscles. Shoulder muscles include the intrinsic muscles or scapulohumeral group, including the deltoid, teres major and four rotator cuff muscles. The extrinsic shoulder muscles are the trapezius, latissimus dorsi, levator scapula and rhomboids (rhomboid major and rhomboid minor).
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Can a Torn Rotator Cuff Heal on Its Own?
Most rotator cuff tears cannot heal on their own unless the injury is minor. Some need medications and physiotherapy, whereas most require surgery.
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What Is the Most Painful Shoulder Injury?
As a rule, a fracture is often the most painful shoulder injury, followed by other conditions of the nerves and tissues of the shoulder joint.
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Shoulder Impingement Syndrome
Shoulder impingement syndrome occurs due to repeated overhead activities and causes pain and discomfort in the shoulder. Check out the center below for more medical references on chronic pain, including multimedia (slideshows, images, and quizzes), related disease conditions, treatment and diagnosis, medications, and prevention or wellness.
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What Are the Most Common Shoulder Injuries?
The shoulder injury is an injury to any of the structures in the shoulder joint, including bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and cartilages. Shoulders are easily injured because they have a complex structure that provides a wide range of motion. They are the most mobile joints in the body and consequently, the most unstable.
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Are There Any Exercises for a Rotator Cuff Injury?
Here are three effective exercises to help you recover from your rotator cuff injury.
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Tendinitis and Tendon Injuries: How It's Diagnosed?
Tendons are flexible bands of thick tissue that connect your muscles to bones. They help to move the muscles or bones of your shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, and ankle joints.
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