Conference paper

Overuse Injuries of the Shoulder

Nikola Čičak
Hrvoje Klobučar
Dalibor Marić

Abstract

The shoulder is the most movable and the most unstable joint in a human body. The glenohumeral joint is particularly vulnerable because overhead activities put tremendous stress on its static stabilisers (ligamentous labral complex) and the dynamic stabilizers (rotator cuff muscles). Overhead activities may stretch or injure the static stabilizers. Minor aberrations in mechanisms controlling stability have a significant and cumulative effect on the shoulder biomechanics, and increase the risk of injury. Impingement syndrome and glenohumeral instability are predominant injuries affecting the shoulder.

Keywords

biceps tendon; impingement syndrome; rotator cuff; SLAP lesion

Hrčak ID:

470

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/470

Publication date:

24.1.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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