Does a positive neer impingement sign reflect rotator cuff contact with the acromion?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 813-818

  Jia, Xiaofeng ^a   Ji, Jong Hun ^a   Pannirselvam, Vinodhkumar ^a   Petersen, Steve A ^a   McFarland, Edward G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GONIOMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEER IMPINGEMENT SIGN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANGE OF MOTION; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER PAIN; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROTATOR CUFF; RUPTURE; SHOULDER;

ACROMION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; ROTATOR CUFF; RUPTURE; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER JOINT; SHOULDER PAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953009022     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1590-3     Document Type: Article

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