Symptomatic internal impingement of the shoulder in overhead athletes

Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 120-129

  Spiegl, Ulrich J ^a   Warth, Ryan J ^a   Millett, Peter J ^a,b  

^a STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b THE STEADMAN CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

internal impingement; overhead athletes; posterosuperior impingement; rotator cuff; shoulder injury; throwing athletes

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRACTURE; CRYOTHERAPY; DYSKINESIA; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR CAPSULE CONTRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ROTATOR CUFF RUPTURE; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; SPORT INJURY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ATHLETE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PROCEDURES; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER;

ATHLETES; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 84900415395     PISSN: 10628592     EISSN: 15381951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSA.0000000000000017     Document Type: Review

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