Scapular stress fracture in a professional cricketer and a review of the literature.

A 21-year-old professional cricketer presented with atraumatic right shoulder pain. He was a right-hand-dominant fast bowler. He reported several weeks of night pain but no history of morning stiffness or other generalised symptoms. Towards the end of a season of English county cricket that had run on immediately following a season in South Africa he developed an acute exacerbation of the shoulder pain severe enough to cause him to retire from a match. The injury had been treated as a possible teres minor strain by a club physiotherapist for a period of 3 weeks with no success and the pain continued, causing inability to bowl.