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Overview: Rotator cuff tears are a common shoulder injury that can cause pain, limited range of motion and weakness. In this Medically Speaking podcast, Dr. Jason Stein, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center and an assistant professor of orthopaedics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, explains that the rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons covering the top of the upper arm bone.
According to Dr. Stein, the rotator cuff can be torn as the result of a traumatic injury, such as a fall, or from previous smaller injuries to the muscles or tendons that become worse as people age. Dr. Stein tells Karen Warmkessel that physical therapy and medications can help with the pain. He says these tears often can be repaired with minimally invasive, arthroscopic surgery.
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