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Abstract
Shoulder joint is the second joint injuried among athletes after the knee joint. Shoulder pain in over head athletes has many causes including impingement syndrome, rotator cuff injury, SLAP lesions, shoulder instability, inflammatory causes and traumatic causes. All these causes affect the normal biomechanics and range of motion of the shoulder joint which may be static or functional abnormalitie Diagnosis of shoulder pain in overhead athletes include, Clinical picture, Plain Radiography, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, C-ARM Fluoroscopy, Ultrasonography and Arthroscopy. Not only the arthroscopic findings play an important role in diagnosis of the case but also clinical picture of the patient either the history or physical examination can help the physician to determine the possible diagnosis and other methods of diagnosis that can help in differential diagnosis between different causes of the shoulder pain. Management of shoulder pain in overhead athletes may be achieved by conservative measures including: physical therapy, bracing, non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), local injection and learning to live with the discomfort. Surgical procedures such as open surgery or arthroscopy are very important in management patients not responding to conservative methods.
Rehabilitation programs include increasing joint mobility (Therapeutic techniques) techniques, techniques to increase soft tissue extensibility and post surgical rehabilitation to avoid recurrence of such injury and help in safe and rapid return to activity.