Mike Reinold

This month’s Inner Circle webinars discussed a one of the most requested topics to date – Internal Impingement.

The biceps tenodesis procedure has recently been popularized as a way to reduce rehabilitation time. However, the biceps plays a role in shoulder function, and we may not know the consequence of eliminating it’s role.

We have a great guest post today from my friend Trevor Winnegge.  Trevor wrote a nice article last year on complications following distal radius fractures that ranked as my number 1 guest post in 2009!  This time, he presents the results of really nice case series on restoring external rotation ROM using subscapularis release massage [...]

What is the best test for a SLAP tear? Over the last series of posts of SLAP tears, we talked about many things: What exactly is a SLAP tear?  Top 5 things you need to know about a Superior Labral Tear How does a SLAP tear occur?  Mechanisms of injury to the superior labrum Part [...]

That is a pretty common question that I hear at meetings – “What is the best test for a SLAP tear?”  My past post of two new SLAP tests described a couple of tests that I am using all the time and prefer in my practice.  However, there are many more tests available.  I am [...]

How does a SLAP Tear Occur? Now that we have discussed the different types and classification of SLAP tears to the superior labrum, I wanted to now talk about how these shoulder injuries occur. There are several injury mechanisms that are speculated to be responsible for creating a SLAP lesion. These mechanisms range from single [...]

5 things you need to know about a SLAP tear

It seems like once or twice a year I read an article about a new test to detect superior labral injuries of the shoulder, or SLAP labral tears.  Seems like the “best” test has been published many times!  With so many tests out there to detect SLAP tears, how do you choose which to perform [...]