Frozen shoulder is a painful and progressively limiting condition that affects the shoulder joint capsule. Tom Miller, MD, talks with orthopedic surgeon Bob Burks, MD, about how to recognize the ...

Imagine if one morning, you casually reached back to hook your bra only to be greeted with a jolt of pain in your shoulder. And then instead of going away, the pain gradually got worse over time, to ...

Many people have heard the term shoulder instability but have wondered what that means. So, what is shoulder instability? Many structures are responsible for stabilizing your shoulders. This includes ...

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ...

Giving someone the cold shoulder means ignoring them, but the medical condition “frozen shoulder,” or adhesive capsulitis, cannot be ignored by the sufferer. A common cause of shoulder pain and ...

The shoulder is a complex joint made up of ligaments, tendons, and muscles. Sustaining damage to any of these tissues can result in pain. Persistent, or chronic, shoulder pain can interfere with a ...

Shoulder sprains and strains are both injuries that can happen due to overuse of or trauma to the shoulder. While the symptoms of the two are similar, they involve different types of tissue within ...

Shoulder instability occurs when the arm’s ball joint moves in and out of the shoulder socket joint. Chronically unstable shoulders can lead to loose shoulder joints that slip out of place repeatedly.