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Throwing Shoulder: Muscular, Softissue & Neurovascular Abnormalities

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Many muscle strains.

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On your left is a list of some of the locations of them.

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I wanted to show you this one.

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This is a strain of the latissimus Dorsey,

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and by the way, its attachment

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and its anatomy intimate with the Terry's major.

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And they may share a singular attachment on the humerus.

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This one was involvement of the Latisimus uh Dorsey.

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And then the other muscle injury

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that occurs in the throwing shoulder

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occupies the lower portion of the subscapularis.

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Because you see an abduction

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and external rotation, the

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subscapularis myo tendonous junction is stress over

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or stretch over the humeral head in the late

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Hocking phase of throwing.

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So you'll end up with tearing of that muscle

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hematomas within that muscle.

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A number of neurovascular injuries may occur,

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particularly in those patients who have labral tears

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and paralabral ganglia in cyst.

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I showed you this case yesterday.

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This is a paralabral ganglia insist the patient had labral

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pathology extending into the spinal glenoid notch, leading

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to an entrapment neuropathy at the suprascapular nerve

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and those nerves that we're occupying

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or supplying the in infraspinatus muscle,

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which you can see is emus.

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And then another thing that is the quadrilateral space,

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and you may get problems there.

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As you remember, there are two major things that go in

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through the quadrilateral space, the axillary nerve,

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so you may get an entrapment of that

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or an injury to the posterior circumflex humeral artery.

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This was a very, very famous professional baseball pitch

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who came in with cyanotic fingers.

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And what they found, he had complete thrombosis

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of the posterior circumflex humal artery with a catheter.

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They were able to open it up

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and he returned to pitching that same year

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and did quite well.

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He was a very successful pitcher.

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There's one soft tissue lesion

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that we have seen in a few baseball pitchers,

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and it is the ELAs fibroma.

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You know it best in its common location along the,

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or deep to the inferior aspect of the scapula.

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But friction develops between the scapula

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and muscles and the ribs.

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And so baseball pitchers may develop ELAs of fibro.

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They appear as low signal intensity structures are sometimes

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with fat also within them.

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Faculty

Stephen J Pomeranz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, ProScan Imaging. Founder, MRI Online

ProScan Imaging

Donald Resnick, MD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiology

University of California, San Diego

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Shoulder

Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI