Rotator Cuff-Related Pain: Impingement and Tears

12/29/21 • 25 min

Now that Austin has covered a framework for classifying and treating shoulder pain, today we'll take a closer look at what is classically known as shoulder impingement and rotator cuff tears. This episode describes the standard model for these diagnoses as well as the problems with those models and the current push to leave them behind.
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12/29/21 • 25 min

OCS Field Guide: A PT Podcast - Rotator Cuff-Related Pain: Impingement and Tears

Transcript

Hello and thanks for tuning in again to OCS Field Guide. We’re continuing our shoulder series today with an episode on another very controversial topic. So controversial, in fact, that we can’t quite settle on what to call it. I’m talking about what’s commonly called shoulder impingement, which has also been called rotator cuff-related shoulder pain, or rotator cuff syndrome, or subacromial pain syndrome—the last of these being the name the STAR-shoulder system uses, as we discussed

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