Our shoulders are one of the most complex joints in our body, and we rely heavily on them for many of our activities such as lifting bags or boxes or children, playing sports, reaching tall shelves, driving, cooking, showering, or even just brushing our teeth. Of course we realize how much we depend on our …
Many of our patients ask all the time, “Do I need a shoulder MRI?” or “But what if I have a tear in my shoulder? Do I need surgery?” Good news my friends! The research is solid in many of the major medical journals with these answers: No, an MRI is not usually needed unless …
The shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint formed by the head of the humerus (the arm bone) and the glenoid labrum (the name for the socket of the shoulder joint in the scapula). The shoulder joint is very mobile – allowing great freedom of movement for the arm (much more than the equivalent joint in the …
It is also the least stable joint in the human body, which is why it is the most commonly dislocated joint. Most people think of the glenohumeral joint as the shoulder joint, but the shoulder complex actually consists of four joints. These joints are the glenohumeral joint, the sternoclavicular joint, the acromioclavicular joint and the …
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