Taking a break from push-ups, tweaking your form, and performing exercises to improve shoulder strength and mobility can help ...

After a fall, and with the onset of your symptoms, it’s a good idea to have your shoulder evaluated by your health care provider. Treatment can improve a rotator cuff injury.

Discover how dry needling can relieve chronic shoulder pain, improve mobility, and promote healing through targeted trigger point therapy.

Most rotator-cuff tears are degenerative, atraumatic, and more prevalent with age. Nonoperative treatment, including physical ...

A rotator cuff tear can make arm movements difficult and cause a dull ache in the shoulder that worsens at night. The injury ...

Continue to pinch the tendon and the tendon begins to wear and eventually may even tear. So, a shoulder impingement “tear” can eventually lead to a rotator cuff tear. Common symptoms of impingement: 1 ...

Whether you are a weekend warrior or a pro athlete, these injuries can happen to anyone and should be treated holistically.

Primary care patients presenting with shoulder pain may in fact have a neck or spine problem instead, Feeley told Medscape ...

What causes a rotator cuff tear? Torn rotator cuffs are all too common for those in midlife or older, as your tendons become weaker and less flexible over time due to wear and tear. Eva Lassey DPT, ...

Each rotator cuff muscle is connected to the humeral head (ball) by tendons and helps hold the ball of the shoulder joint securely in its socket while also enabling you rotate and lift your arm in ...

Eve Glazier, M.D., MBA, is an internist and associate professor of medicine at UCLA Health. Elizabeth Ko, M.D., is an internist and assistant professor of medicine at UCLA Health.