Introduction The biceps brachii muscle is the primary forearm supinator and a secondary elbow flexor. The pathophysiology of distal tendon ruptures is still unclear. Patients with chronic rupture ...

Because some Achilles tendon ruptures are missed on the initial physical exam, many patients will present late. Although there is no consensus regarding when an acute rupture becomes a chronic or ...

“I got the MRI, my orthopedic looked at it and he said there’s not a tear, I don’t see a tear in your biceps ... they’ll weave sutures into the tendon that’s there hoping that it ...

This is substantially the same paper as one read at a meeting of the Surgical Section of the Suffolk District Medical Society, on March 3, 1886. Since the reading, one new case has come to my ...

The biceps brachii, commonly known as the bicep ... may increase this risk. A bicep tendon rupture is a tear in the tendon ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. White, it turned out, had suffered a biceps rupture. The tendon had torn off the bone near the elbow. He didn’t know it at the time ...

an elbow injury may present itself as a biceps tendon tear. The prevention for elbow injuries can look like proper warming up, ramping up of lifting, and avoiding eccentric-only exercises. A complete ...

For both MRIs, we used a standardised scoring form that included intramuscular tendon injury characteristics. We recorded reinjuries during 1-year follow-up. Results At RTP, 56% of the intramuscular ...

MRI is generally superior to ultrasound in differentiating hemorrhage from tendon at the rupture site as well as differentiating partial from complete tears. In addition to aiding in the diagnosis ...