There may be new hope for people suffering from debilitating, slow-healing rotator cuff injuries. Chinese scientists have created an implantable 3D-printed material that both restores shoulder ...

Surgeons repair more than 600,000 such tears each year at a cost of $3 billion. Failure rates range from 20% in younger patients with minor tears, to 94% in elderly patients with major tears.

Rotator cuff tears can cause pain and weakness. Sometimes these tears can heal without surgery, but severe rotator cuff damage can be permanent without surgical intervention.

Rotator cuff tears are usually seen in two types of patients. A young person who suffers a traumatic injury in their shoulder, and someone in their 60s or 70s that has wear and tear throughout ...

Most rotator-cuff tears are degenerative, atraumatic, and more prevalent with age. Nonoperative treatment, including physical therapy, is typically recommended; surgery is considered in some cases.

One study found that across a wide age range, the overall prevalence of asymptomatic tears of the rotator cuff was 34% (J Bone Joint Surg. 1995;77:10-15).

Due to its anatomy, the rotator cuff can be prone to certain injuries. Strains and tears can both affect this group of muscles, but these injuries differ in important ways.

Kobe Bryant has suffered a torn rotator cuff and will fly back to Los Angeles, the Lakers have confirmed. O Omnisports Pulse An MRI scan has revealed that Kobe Bryant suffered a torn rotator cuff ...

The team announced on Jan. 10 that Jones would be out indefinitely due to a posterior labrum tear in his right shoulder. It was a re-injury to the shoulder that caused him to miss 18 games earlier ...

Guardado Has a Torn Rotator Cuff L.A. Times Archives Aug. 11, 2004 12 AM PT From Associated Press ...

VIERA, Fla., Feb. 26 -- -- VIERA, Fla., Feb. 26 -- Washington Nationals right-hander Brian Lawrence had surgery Sunday to repair his torn right labrum, and during the surgery doctors also ...