Medically reviewed by Theresa Marko, PT, DPT, MS If you have pain in your upper arm or shoulder, you may have irritated your ...

Tendons are tough bands of soft tissue that connect muscle to bone. They are pulled when muscles contract to allow body parts to move. The biceps is the muscle on the front of the upper arm. The upper ...

A biceps tear is a rupture of the biceps tendon, which connects the biceps muscle of the upper arm to the bones in the shoulder and elbow. Tears in the biceps tendon (often incorrectly called the ...

Sonography of the right shoulder showed absence of biceps tendon within the bicipital groove of the right humerus (figure 2). Together with his history, prominent upper arm swelling (Popeye’s sign) on ...

Introduction The biceps brachii muscle is the primary forearm supinator and a secondary elbow flexor. The pathophysiology of distal tendon ruptures is still unclear. Patients with chronic rupture ...

A bicep bulge is an injury that typically results from a tendon tear and is sometimes referred to as a “Popeye deformity.” When one of the tendons attached to the bicep muscle is torn, it causes the ...

We present a case series of two patients who presented to the emergency department with spontaneous bilateral Achilles tendon rupture associated with the use of ciprofloxacin. Tendinitis and tendon ...

Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Keele University School of Medicine, Stoke on Trent, UK Correspondence to Professor N Maffuli, Department of ...

your biceps and triceps are antagonistic pairs when you curl your arm the bicep contracts and pulls the tendons that cause your arm to bend, while at the same time the tricep muscles relax.When ...