Rotator Cuff Injury Case Study

Your rotator cuff consists of four muscles in your shoulder that allows you to move your arm away from your body. These muscles have tendons, which connect them to the head of your upper arm bone or humerus. When a tear occurs in these muscles, you will experience extreme pain on motion. A rotator cuff tear is also extremely painful at night. If left untreated, it may result in arm weakness.

A September 7 elbow fracture during the Double-A playoffs will cause minor league second baseman Ozzie Albies to miss the remainder of the playoff season with his team, the Mississippi Braves. The 19-year-old, who was expected to be one of the stars of the playoffs, had split his time this year between the Mississippi Braves and the franchise's Triple-A team, the Gwinnett Braves. Although Albies' injury will require surgery, he should be able to return to playing baseball by January.

Four muscles that are attached to the shoulder blade make up the rotator cuff. These muscles work together to ensure the shoulder moves and rotates properly. If the muscles become inflamed or torn, you will struggle

A pitcher with a great amount of throwing power and technique can decrease the amounts of hits, and essentially limit the amounts of runs scored by the opposing team. Training for this type of athlete will include an incorporation of muscular endurance, muscular strength, muscular power, muscular power endurance, and flexibility, agility, and speed for maximal performance. Increasing each factor can help reduce the risk of injury by strengthening the muscles around the joints that are easily injured due to the amount of power and torque exerted on the tendons by each pitch (Wilk, Macrina, Fleisig, Aune, Porterfield, Harker, Evans, 2014). Several studies show the importance of strength and conditioning on injury prevention, however, pitchers with more balanced rotator cuff musculature may be at lower risk for injury and have a greater range of motion (ROM). Given the high demands placed on the shoulder in all defensive positions, professional baseball pitchers may be at higher risk of injury without proper conditioning due to constant usage. This can lead to the tightening of tendons and reduced ROM causing greater risk of injury. Although arm strength and power are important to increase a pitchers velocity, lower extremity strength and conditioning are also thought to be crucial in the transfer of energy during pitching and thus should be included for a pitchers success (Wilk,

My initial treatment instructions for the athlete were to continue resting, icing, compressing and elevating the injury for the first 48 hours. I advised him that he should ice the affected area a minimum of 4 times per day throughout the first 2 days of rehabilitation. This should help reduce the pain, swelling and inflammation as a result of the injury. I also recommended he take an over the counter anti-inflammatory medication if he felt he needed to. Due to the valgus stress test being positive, I referred the pitcher to a doctor for an MRI. The MRI later revealed a grade 2 tear of the ulnar collateral ligament with impingement of the ulnar nerve causing the tingling sensation in the fourth and fifth fingers of the right hand.

This paper is going to be over rotator cuff injuries and what to do if this occurs to an athlete. The rotator cuff consists of four muscles which are the Subscapularis, infraspinatus, teres minor, and the supraspinatus and their associated tendons that insert into the Humerus. These groups of muscles are responsible for rotating the arm internally and externally as well as abducting the shoulder. The acronym for the four muscles of the rotator cuff is known as SITS. The best treatment for symptomatic, nontraumatic rotator cuff tears is unknown. The purpose of this trial was to compare the effectiveness of physiotherapy, acromioplasty, and rotator cuff repair for this injury. The way this trial worked was that 180 shoulders with the symptomatic,

c- Palpation: Palpation of the cuff tendon defect is a very useful examination. Rent Test, which is placing the tip of the finger just anterior to the acromion to palpate the defect of the cuff tendon. At the same time extend patients arm and internally and externally rotates to palpate rotator cuff tendons. The sensitivity and specificity of this palpating of the cuff tendon defect for the diagnosis of full-thickness rotator cuff tears were 96 and 97%, respectively, which were equivalent to the sensitivity and specificity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or ultrasonography

The introductory section of this research emphasizes common types of injuries a collegiate baseball player may experience. Since it mainly focuses on the function of overhead-throwing motion, the emphasis on concentric internal rotator strength was utilized to crease the upper extremity plyometric program. Additionally, it is stated in the introduction that if the shoulders external rotator musculature is not strong enough, the athlete is more susceptible to shoulder injury.

Millions of people across the United States suffer from either Bursitis or a rotator cuff injury every year. Although sometimes the two can be misconceived, they are very different in all actuality. Bursitis is the inflammation or irritation of the bursa. A bursa is a fluid-filled sac used as a bumper near the joints to reduce friction. There are many bursae located in your body, some of which being in the hip, shoulder, wrist, and elbow. However, a rotator cuff injury only affects the shoulder area of the body. The “rotator cuff” is composed of the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, subscapularis, and teres minor muscles. There is only one main way to be diagnosed with Bursitis and it happens when you overuse a joint in sports or on the job. You can put the bursa under pressure for a long time, thus causing the bursa to become inflamed.

The purpose of this study was to examine the risk factors of the baseball elbow lesion in youth baseball players to perform medical check including trunk function. The subjects were the men's elementary and junior high of 166 baseball players (11.4 ± 2.0 years) who participated in the medical check of the off-season. Lesions of the elbow joint were assessed using ultrasound system. Tenderness inspection was performed on medial epicondyle and the humerus capitellum.Which test is the case of a positive as a group of disorders, and the other was a non-disabled group. It was measured the physical function of the 20 items in order to examine the relationship between baseball elbow lesion. It was performed univariate analysis between the two groups

The rotator cuff is a group of 4 muscles, the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, subscapularis, and the teres minor. These muscles helps to lift your shoulder up over your head and also rotate it toward and away from your body. Unfortunately, it is also a group of muscles that is frequently injured by tears, tendonitis, impingement, bursitis, and strains. The major muscle that is usually involved is the supraspinatus muscle. Rotator Cuff Injuries are usually broken up into the following categories.

The vastus lateralis muscle is situated in side of the thigh.This Muscle is the biggest of the quadriceps group which also includes the rectus femoris, the vastus intermedius, and the

A rotator cuff tear is an injury that plagues much of the elderly population as well as a variety of athletes. The etiology of a rotator cuff tear is primarily due to the degeneration of the tendons or more specifically the thinning and disorientation of collagen fibers and degradation of various cells and tissues. 1 Rotator cuff tears are more likely to occur with age. Rotator cuff tears may occur due to direct trauma such as falling or shearing linked to a simple throwing or rotation of the arm and shoulder.2

Shoulder injuries are a very common injury that occurs in most sports. All injuries and the rehabilitation done to the injured shoulder are based on the anatomy and structures of the shoulder. Doctors have developed different tests for evaluating the degree and seriousness of injured shoulders. Some have also developed different phases a person must go through to properly rehabilitate the shoulder.

Non-traumatic tendinopathies usually have an insidious onset of localized pain over the anterosuperior shoulder, during the arc range of 60 – 120 degrees. However, as the disorder progresses, it causes pain at night, interfering with the sleep pattern of patients. The sequale following inadequate sleep is vast, as it can disrupt the homeostasis of the body. Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy might cause only a mobility restriction but its impact on the individual as a whole is not as minor as it seems. The disorder initially starts as an inflammatory tendinitis causing pain within the arc range, however as it progresses, it results in the development of secondary adhesive capsulitis. The capsulitis greatly restricts the global movement of the shoulder,