A 60-year-old man is experiencing right shoulder pain after falling off of a ladder 3 days ago while cleaning out the eavestrough gutters of his home. The man was brought to the hospital by his wife and is presenting with localized swelling, weakness, decreased range of motion, and has pain on palpation of the anterior right shoulder. His pain is increased when he tries to activate through the shoulder by initiating external rotation and abduction. The man's major complaint is that he is unable to comb his hair and brush his teeth without pain as he cannot maintain his arm in an elevated position for more than a few seconds. At the hospital, the doctor ordered an x-ray and gave him an injection of local anesthetic. The x-ray did not show any significant findings and the anesthetic relieved his pain but did not help with the weakness   1. Explain how this is a possible deltoid and infrsaspinatus injury and how each relates to the patient's presenting signs/symptoms and test results. Be specific with what is at fault

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A 60-year-old man is experiencing right shoulder pain after falling off of a ladder 3 days ago
while cleaning out the eavestrough gutters of his home. The man was brought to the hospital by
his wife and is presenting with localized swelling, weakness, decreased range of motion, and has
pain on palpation of the anterior right shoulder. His pain is increased when he tries to activate
through the shoulder by initiating external rotation and abduction. The man's major complaint is
that he is unable to comb his hair and brush his teeth without pain as he cannot maintain his arm
in an elevated position for more than a few seconds. At the hospital, the doctor ordered an x-ray
and gave him an injection of local anesthetic. The x-ray did not show any significant findings
and the anesthetic relieved his pain but did not help with the weakness
 

1. Explain how this is a possible deltoid and infrsaspinatus injury and how each relates to the patient's presenting signs/symptoms and test results. Be specific with what is at fault

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