- SlidesCaseload 5Rotator Cuff-Related Shoulder PainLoad-sensitive lateral shoulder pain, and the honest numbers behind the tests you were taught. What the cuff evidence supports, what it doesn't, and what to actually do in five weeks.
- SlidesCaseload 6Adhesive Capsulitis (Frozen Shoulder)The stiff, painful shoulder that loses passive range. How to tell it from a cuff, why the injection conversation belongs early, and the honest answer to how long it takes.
- SlidesAcromioclavicular Joint Injury and OsteoarthritisTwo conditions, one joint. The grade sets the conversation, not the decision — and the classification is less reliable than the choice it is supposed to drive.
- SlidesAnterior Shoulder InstabilityThe shoulder that left the socket once and is frightened of the position it happened in. Why the rehab is the easy part and the decision around it isn't, and what apprehension actually tells you.
- SlidesCalcific Tendinopathy (Shoulder)The most painful shoulder you will meet, and one of the few that resolves on its own. How to recognise it without an x-ray, and what to say to someone who cannot lie on that side.
- SlidesGlenohumeral OsteoarthritisThe stiff shoulder where the X-ray actually is the answer — and the one pattern in the shoulder where almost nothing has been tested. What to say when the evidence is this thin.
- SlidesLittle Leaguer's Shoulder (Proximal Humeral Epiphysiolysis)Gradual lateral shoulder or proximal arm ache in a skeletally immature thrower, tracking throwing volume, often announced by lost velocity or lost control before the word pain is used. It is stress failure at the proximal humeral physis — the growing shoulder's version of an overuse injury, managed as workload medicine with rehabilitation attached.
- SlidesLong Head of Biceps TendinopathyThe tendon that almost never hurts by itself. Where the tests come from, why groove palpation misses by 1.4 cm, and what to say when the profession has agreed on a treatment it hasn't tested.
- SlidesMultidirectional Instability (MDI)A young, often hypermobile shoulder that feels loose in more than one direction. The one where rehab genuinely is the treatment, and the one students most often improvise.
- SlidesPancoast Tumour (Superior Sulcus / Apical Lung Cancer)Shoulder and medial arm pain with no mechanical cause, worse at night, with a C8–T1 hand. The shoulder page you must know before you need it.
- SlidesPost-Operative Shoulder (Cuff Repair, Stabilisation, Arthroplasty)A patient a few weeks out from surgery, sore, frightened of the arm, holding a protocol you didn't write. The placement caseload where doing less than you want to is the skill.
- SlidesPosterior Shoulder InstabilityDeep posterior shoulder pain and a sense of slipping backwards on pushing. The shoulder diagnosis students miss most often.
- SlidesProximal Humerus Fracture (Stable / Non-Operative)An older adult who fell onto the shoulder, with pain on any arm movement. A straightforward rehab job attached to a much bigger clinical problem, and the bit that isn't the shoulder.
- SlidesSLAP Lesion (Superior Labrum Anterior to Posterior)Deep shoulder pain with clicking in a throwing athlete. The diagnosis you can't confirm, in the patient whose scan will show it anyway — and what to do with that.
- SlidesSubacromial Impingement / Subacromial Pain Syndrome (SAPS)Lateral shoulder pain with overhead reaching, a mid-range painful arc, and night pain lying on it. Treat it as load-sensitive shoulder pain with a mechanical component, not as proof that something is being pinched — because the tests don't identify the tissue and the surgery that follows from the pinching story does not beat placebo.
- SlidesSuprascapular Nerve Entrapment (Suprascapular Neuropathy)Deep posterior-lateral shoulder ache with external-rotation weakness and, sooner or later, visible wasting — in a thrower, a volleyballer or an overhead lifter, with a clean cervical screen. The reasoning move that matters is where along the nerve it is: the notch takes out supraspinatus and infraspinatus, the spinoglenoid notch takes out infraspinatus, and an isolated infraspinatus tells you to go looking for a cyst.
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