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Article: Research conducted at Stanford University has provided new information about shoulder pain.
- Article from:
- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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"The objective of reporting this case was to introduce a unique cause of shoulder pain in a high-level Division I NCAA collegiate baseball player. Various neurovascular causes of shoulder pain have been described in the overhead athlete, including quadrilateral space syndrome, thoracic outlet syndrome, effort thrombosis, and suprascapular nerve entrapment," scientists in the United States report (see also Shoulder Pain).
"All of these syndromes are uncommon and frequently are missed as a result of their rarity and the need for specialized tests to confirm the diagnosis. This pitcher presented with nonspecific posterior shoulder pain that was so severe he could ...