What Is a Rotator Cuff Tear? A rotator cuff tear is a rip in the group of four muscles and tendons that stabilize your shoulder joint and let you lift and rotate your arms (your rotator cuff).

A rotator cuff tear is marked by damage to one (or more) of the four tendons that stabilize the shoulder joint. Warning signs of a torn rotator cuff are typically felt in the shoulder area.

Older patients who dislocate their shoulder may sustain a large tear of the rotator cuff tendon when they fall. This tendon is made up of four muscles that allow active motion of the shoulder.

A rotator cuff tear is a partial or complete severing of the rotator cuff tendons in the shoulder, usually due to injury. A strain is different, as it involves an overstretch of the tendons.

Rotator-cuff disorders. Tears of the rotator cuff ... involving the repair of the torn tendon and resecuring it to the humerus to allow for tendon-to-bone healing as well as a low incidence ...

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 ...

Medical researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center designed and built a python-tooth-inspired implant to better mend rotator cuff tears—small ruptures in the muscles and tendon ...

For each joint, the researchers simulated a rotator cuff tear by cutting the supraspinatus tendon with a scalpel. Each shoulder was then randomly assigned to undergo a conventional double-row ...

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Ragans last pitched June 5, getting knocked around for five runs over three innings in St. Louis in his first start back from a groin injury. It's not clear whether he suffered the rotator cuff injury ...