Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Anterior shoulder instability is a common shoulder pathology, occurring in 1% to 2% of the general population.

An unstable shoulder joint can be the cause or the result of a labral tear. “Labral” refers to the glenoid labrum – a ring of cartilage that surrounds the base of the shoulder joint. Injuries to the ...

When hip or shoulder pain disrupts your life, the cause could be a labral tear. But what does that mean? Orthopedic surgeon Stephen Aoki, MD, breaks down what a labral tear is, how this injury happens ...

Examining the asymptomatic shoulder first helps the patient become more comfortable with the examination and allows a more reliable assessment of the symptomatic shoulder with comparison to the normal ...

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 ...

Utah Jazz center Walker Kessler underwent shoulder surgery after an injury that will make him miss the rest of the season. Kessler had the procedure to repair a labral tear on Thursday in Los Angeles.

Objective: Acetabular labral tears predominantly affect young patients and are a source of hip pain in the athlete. Four causes of the initiation of labral tears have been proposed; trauma, hypolaxity ...