With the term Slap Lesion it is usually understood the anatomic condition of a lesion of the anteriorsuperior part of the glenoid labrum associated with the detachment of the tendon of the long head of biceps.
The shoulder is the most mobile joint of the body. This characteristic, however, makes it also the most unstable joint of the human organism and this is why it is often object of dislocations.
The term “thoracic outlet syndrome” involves a series of usually bilateral symptoms determined by the compression of nervous and/or vascular structures by bony muscular ones.
Ruptures of the rotator cuff may be partial or complete and they are always more frequent. In 90% of cases, these injuries are degenerative, while only 10% of them derive from a trauma.