Rotator cuff tear surgery, although intellectually interesting, does not seem to demonstrate a statistically significant clinical difference. Biceps tenotomy and tenodesis are are often performed concomitantly with rotator cuff repair or as separate procedures and can be a sole or concomitant cause of shoulder pain. Tenodesis, which may be performed as an arthroscopic or open procedure, generally restores pain free motion it the biceps tendon, or attached portion of the labrum, is the cause of the pain. Tenotomy is a shorter surgery, requiring less rehabilitation, that doctors tend to recommended for older patients who don't mind the cosmetic 'popeye sign' that sometimes is
Mucous sheaths of the tendons around the ankle the level of the tip of the malleolus, while that for the Flexor digitorum longus is slightly higher; the former is continued to the base of the first metatarsal, but the latter stops opposite the first cuneiform bone. On the lateral (outer) side of the ankle a sheath which is single for the greater part of its extent encloses the Peronæi longus and brevis. It extends upward for about 4 cm. above the tip of the malleolus and downward and forward for about the same distance. Mucous sheaths of the tendons around the ankle The mucous sheaths of the tendons