Tendons are tough bands of soft tissue that connect muscle to bone. They are pulled when muscles contract to allow body parts to move. The biceps is the muscle on the front of the upper arm. The upper ...

Keep reading to learn more about rotator cuff conditions and other potential causes of right shoulder and arm pain. The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons that keep your upper arm bone ...

A biceps tear is a rupture of the biceps tendon, which connects the biceps muscle of the upper arm to the bones in the shoulder and elbow. Tears in the biceps tendon (often incorrectly called the ...

Skeletal muscles—those attached to your bones by tendons—make up about a third ... Even workouts like bench presses can build strength in your upper extremities. But, Maroldi says, the key to avoiding ...

A proximal biceps tendon tear results in bunching of the muscle to form a large painful ball on the upper arm; this bulge is called Popeye sign.1 In this case, the patient developed Popeye sign with ...

Sonography of the right shoulder showed absence of biceps tendon within the bicipital groove of the right humerus (figure 2). Together with his history, prominent upper arm swelling (Popeye’s sign) on ...

The subscapularis tendon passes across the front of the shoulder joint and ... Next, to further lengthen the muscle and break up any adhesions, the patient adducts her upper arm across her body. The ...

Stitches from the anchors are then used to repair the labrum back to the socket so that it can heal Biceps tenodesis, which involves removing the damaged long head biceps tendon from the shoulder ...