This method of conservative treatment orthopedic and traumatological conditions diseases, such as extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) has been gaining popularity in recent years. Objective. Review modern (for the last 5 years) sourcesof literature on use ESWT ortopedotraumatic diseases upper limbs. Methods. Publicationsfrom search system Google, PubMed, Medline other relevant sources scient...

Shoulder injury in overhead athletes, who perform repetitive overhead motions, has been well documented; however, there is a paucity of data regarding the incidence of specific shoulder injuries in these individuals. Data were collected from the preseason medical examinations and medical records maintained throughout the collegiate careers of 371 overhead athletes. Shoulder injuries were docume...

A 51-year-old female with a history of gout, hypertension and diabetes presented to the emergency department with one week of increasing pain and swelling of her left knee, just below the patella. She denied trauma, fever and calf pain. She took Ciprofloxacin for 14 days for a urinary tract infection. She was afebrile with stable vital signs, and the exam revealed mild swelling, increased warmt...

Shoulder problems are common in patients with a cervical herniated intervertebral disc (HIVD). This study aimed to explore the incidence and risk of shoulder capsulitis/tendonitis following cervical HIVD surgery. We used data from the Taiwan "Longitudinal Health Insurance Database". We identified all patients who were hospitalized with a diagnosis of displacement of a cervical HIVD and who unde...

©2004 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.86B2. 14253 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2004;86-B:165-71. Extracorporeal shock waves are focused, single-pressure pulses of microsecond duration. They were first utilised for medical purposes over two decades ago in the treatment of renal calculi by lithotripsy. Soon afterwards shock waves were used in the manageme...

OBJECTIVE To establish the correlations among the mineral components, progressive calcification process and clinical symptoms of calcific tendonitis. METHODS The morphology of the calcified deposits on the shoulders of 28 patients with calcific tendonitis was determined by high-resolution ultrasonography. The calcified deposit from each patient was aspirated and determined by the Fourier tran...

The study was conducted to register the occurrence of Bioccipital/ Rotator Cuff Tendonitis in the subjects involved in Bench Press Activity in gymnasium. Fifty male subjects (age group 2030 years), having shoulder pain for at least three weeks, were selected randomly and were interviewed for the present history of shoulder pain, from various gymnasia. The subjects were interviewed through a que...

Current literature suggests that tendonitis of the extensor pollicis longus (EPL) is a rare condition that has a high rate of progression to rupture. This study documents the prodrome of impending EPL rupture in patients with prior nondisplaced distal radial fracture. A retrospective study identified patients with EPL tendonitis or tendon rupture. Seven patients (6 females and 1 male) had susta...