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Published in A Stewart Whitley, Jan Dodgeon, Angela Meadows, Jane Cullingworth, Ken Holmes, Marcus Jackson, Graham Hoadley, Randeep Kumar Kulshrestha, Clark’s Procedures in Diagnostic Imaging: A System-Based Approach, 2020
A Stewart Whitley, Jan Dodgeon, Angela Meadows, Jane Cullingworth, Ken Holmes, Marcus Jackson, Graham Hoadley, Randeep Kumar Kulshrestha
If the patient presents with persistent pain in the antero-lateral aspect of the shoulder, ultrasound can be useful for the diagnosis of impingement syndrome; rotator cuff tendinopathy or tear; joint effusion and bursal fluid; ACJ pathology; and biceps muscle injury. In posterior shoulder pain, ultrasound can be useful to diagnose rotator cuff tendinopathy or tear and posterior labrum lesion. Many of these symptoms are linked with sports injuries or arise as a result of work-related strain [27].
Tight shoulders: A clinical, kinematic and strength comparison of symptomatic and asymptomatic male overhead athletes before and after stretching
Published in European Journal of Sport Science, 2021
Cédric Schwartz, Jean-Louis Croisier, Olivier Brüls, Vincent Denoël, Bénédicte Forthomme
This study has evaluated the effects of a stretching programme on several risk factors of the SAIS. As described by Kibler (1998), two stretching exercises of the posterior shoulder structures are predominantly described in the literature and used clinically: the cross-body arm and the sleeper stretch. The stretching lasts at least 30 s (Cools et al., 2012; Maenhout et al., 2012; McClure et al., 2007; Tyler, Nicholas, Lee, Mullaney, & McHugh, 2010) and is repeated between three (Cools et al., 2012; Maenhout et al., 2012; Tyler et al., 2010) and five times (McClure et al., 2007), three (Cools et al., 2012; Tyler et al., 2010) to seven days a week (Maenhout et al., 2012). The duration of the programme is usually four weeks (McClure et al., 2007), but can be as short as three weeks (Cools et al., 2012) and as long as 12 (Aldridge, Stephen Guffey, Whitehead, Head, and Guffey 2012). The stretching programme used in the present study combined these two main stretching exercises. Our programme was, in terms of protocol (duration, repetitions etc.) in the average of those present in the literature (Cools et al., 2012; Maenhout et al., 2012; McClure et al., 2007; Tyler et al., 2010). Contrary to other studies (Cools et al., 2012), the stretching was self-applied and the physiotherapist only intervened at the beginning of the programme as an instructor. Developing self-applied protocols is of great interest if they are to be proposed to asymptomatic athletes who are not under the active care of a physician or a physiotherapist.