SLUCare Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery specialists developed the following physical therapy protocols for SLUCare clinicians to use when recommending treatment and rehab for SLUCare patients.

The shoulder labrum is a piece of soft cartilage in the socket-shaped joint in your shoulder bone. It cups the ball-shaped joint at the top of your upper arm bone, connecting the two joints. A group ...

Tears to the glenoid labrum - cartilage tissue that lines the shoulder where the arm joins - can be repaired with arthroscopic surgery, which significantly weakens the joint and involves a lengthy ...

Background Labral repair and biceps tenodesis are routine operations for superior labrum anterior posterior (SLAP) lesion of the shoulder, but evidence of their efficacy is lacking. We evaluated the ...

This week we are going to discuss the variety of tears that can occur to the glenoid labrum – the fibrocartilaginous cup that surrounds the socket of the shoulder. The glenoid labrum strengthens the ...