baseball Archive

  • Shoulder Instability

    Shoulder Instability

    INSTABILITY  Shoulder instability is excessive movement between the humeral head (ball) and the glenoid (socket) which clinically presents as “a feeling of looseness” or loss of momentum and strength. The shoulder can be unstable anteriorly, posterioly, inferiorly, or a combination of all three termed multidirectional instability (MDI). The direction of instability relates to the relationship of the [...]

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  • Shoulder Labral Injuries

    Shoulder Labral Injuries

    LABRAL INJURIES  The shoulder is a ball (humeral head) and socket (glenoid) joint.  The socket is extremely shallow, and thus inherently unstable.  The shoulder joint is compared to a golf ball on a tee – the ball (humeral head) is not held in place by the tee (socket).  Thus extra support is needed to stabilize the [...]

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