If you injure your rotator cuff, which is a group of tendons and muscles that hold your shoulder joint in place, Medicare may cover the cost of surgery if a doctor deems it medically necessary.

but any of the four tendons may tear. If rotator cuff muscles and tendons are severely damaged, surgery is typically needed to promote tendon-to-bone healing and restore optimal shoulder function.

Rotator cuff tears are very common and have been notoriously hard to heal. Now, a local doctor is using a new bio-implant to ...

Orthopedic injuries may sound like something that only athletes experience, but they often occur in the most basic ways.

Bhubaneswar  – Manipal Hospital Bhubaneswar has recently successfully performed an advanced arthroscopic surgery using a bioinductive implant called the regenten patch to treat a high-grade rotator ...

The Shoulder Care Access Project (SCAP) Clinic bases its model on an online self-referral tool — a web questionnaire that ...

It didn't take long for the Braves to suffer their first major injury of the season, with Reynaldo Lopez undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his throwing ...

New Orleans Pelicans forward Trey Murphy underwent successful surgery Wednesday ... as a torn labrum and partial tear of the rotator cuff in his right shoulder. Murphy, who was having the best ...

Background Pathology of the soft tissues of the shoulder including the musculotendinous ... to describe the continuum of the rotator cuff pathology from asymptomatic tendon through full thickness ...

The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons holding the shoulder joint in place. If an individual injures their rotator cuff, Medicare may cover the surgery costs if a doctor confirms it is ...