Patients who present with global capsular laxity and glenohumeral instability frequently can be treated successfully with shoulder girdle musculature strengthening exercises and activity modification. When such injury is caused by a paralytic shoulder, a rehabilitation program may not be a viable treatment option. Presented in this article are 3 patients with global capsular laxity and glenohum...

The purpose of this study cares to investigate effect of shoulder stabilization exercise at the pain control, function and range of motion of shoulder girdle after surgery of shoulder dislocation patients. They were assigned by random sampling to an experimental group to which stabilization exercise was applied and a control group to which ordinary physical treatment was applied. The results of...

The aims of our study were to compare the dominant (DOM) and non-dominant (NDOM) shoulders of high-level volleyball athletes and identify possible associations of shoulder adaptations with spike speed (SS) and shoulder pathology. A total of 22 male volleyball players from two teams participating in the first division of the Cypriot championship underwent clinical shoulder tests and simple measu...

  Frozen shoulder is a glenohumeral joint disorder that perturbs movement because of adhesion and the existence of fibrosis in the shoulder capsule. Platelet-rich plasma can produce collagen and growth factors, which increases stem cells and consequently enhances the healing. To date, there is no evidence regarding the effectiveness of platelet-rich plasma in frozen shoulder. A 45-year-old man ...

OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of shoulder pain and dysfunction in patients from Southern Brazil with diabetes mellitus (DM) and to evaluate the association of pain and dysfunction with diabetes control and epidemiological factors. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We studied 150 patients with type 2 DM for pain and shoulder dysfunction with the UCLA-m (modified University of California at Los Angeles ...

This paper reports the findings from a study aimed at examining the effectiveness of shoulder rumble strips in reducing run-off-the-road (ROR) crashes on two-lane rural highways using the empirical Bayes (EB) before-and-after analysis method. Specifically, the study analyzed the effects of traffic volume, roadway geometry and paved right shoulder width on the effectiveness of shoulder rumble st...

Total shoulder arthroplasty and shoulder hemiarthroplasty have been the traditional method for treating a variety of shoulder conditions, including arthritis, cuff tear arthropathy, and some fracture types. However, these procedures did not provide consistently good results for patients with torn rotator cuffs. The development of the reverse prosthesis by Grammont in the late 20th century revol...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of isometric upper limb contraction on the trunk and lower extremity muscles during the sit-to-stand activity in elderly females. METHODS: Eighteen healthy elderly females performed three directional isometric upper extremity contractions (flexion, extension, and horizontal abduction movements) using an elastic band during sit-to...

An unconscious 21-year-old male was brought to our emergency room (ER) three hours after ingesting 2 g of tramadol and 400 mg of methadone. He had one episode of generalized tonic-clonic seizure before arriving to the ER. After regaining of consciousness, the patient complained from pain in his right shoulder. Anterior dislocation of the patient’s shoulder was confirmed on plain x-ray (Figure 1...

During use of the normal shoulder, the humeral head is centered within the glenoid and the coracoacromial arch. When the shoulder cannot maintain this centered position during use, it is unstable. An unstable shoulder prevents normal function of the upper extremity. Shoulder instability is not the same as joint laxity. Joint laxity is a property of normal joints and allows the shoulder to attai...