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eneral population of a village in Japan.</p><p id="9b0e">What they found was about 22% of the population has them, and some of those people have shoulder pain or other symptoms.</p><p id="8278">But, what was really astonishing is that almost TWICE the number of people had full thickness rotator cuff tears with <b>no symptoms</b>.</p><p id="41c0" type="7">One hundred and forty seven out of 664 subjects (22.1%) had full-thickness rotator cuff tears. Of them, symptomatic rotator cuff tears accounted for 34.7% (51 out of 147 subjects) and asymptomatic tears for 65.3% (96 out of 147 subjects)</p><p id="a7e7">This study has its limitations of course, but this is not the only time it has been documented that tears are fairly common in the general population.</p><p id="3487">What this study is telling us is a rotator cuff tear by itself is not a great indicator of what is causing your

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shoulder pain.</p><p id="5041">I hope if you have been diagnosed with a tear this information provides you with some reassurance.</p><p id="b413">Thank you for reading and have an excellent day!</p><p id="c050"><i>You may also like:</i></p><div id="aa36" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/do-lumbar-disc-herniations-heal-without-surgery-bd69ca4ae6a2"> <div> <div> <h2>Do Lumbar Disc Herniations Heal Without Surgery?</h2> <div><h3>A recent systematic review and meta-analysis offers some evidence.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*v-wieI38FYw4K5X7)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

OMG You Have a Torn Rotator Cuff!

WAIT…so do a lot of people, and a lot of those people don’t have pain.

Is your shoulder hurting? Have you recently been told you have a rotator cuff tear?

Not all rotator cuff tears are painful. Photo by Ekaterina Kuznetsova on Unsplash

Not that long ago some researchers in Japan published an interesting article. In the paper, they identified the prevalence of rotator cuff tears in the general population of a village in Japan.

What they found was about 22% of the population has them, and some of those people have shoulder pain or other symptoms.

But, what was really astonishing is that almost TWICE the number of people had full thickness rotator cuff tears with no symptoms.

One hundred and forty seven out of 664 subjects (22.1%) had full-thickness rotator cuff tears. Of them, symptomatic rotator cuff tears accounted for 34.7% (51 out of 147 subjects) and asymptomatic tears for 65.3% (96 out of 147 subjects)

This study has its limitations of course, but this is not the only time it has been documented that tears are fairly common in the general population.

What this study is telling us is a rotator cuff tear by itself is not a great indicator of what is causing your shoulder pain.

I hope if you have been diagnosed with a tear this information provides you with some reassurance.

Thank you for reading and have an excellent day!

You may also like:

Do Lumbar Disc Herniations Heal Without Surgery?

A recent systematic review and meta-analysis offers some evidence.

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