A common practice of shoulder surgeons may be impairing the success of rotator cuff surgery, a new study from orthopedic scientists and biomedical engineers at Columbia University suggests. The work ...

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. The ...

Shoulder bursal tissue is often removed during rotator cuff repair, but that might not be such a good idea, researchers said. Studies with human bursa samples and in rats with tendon injuries showed ...