L'esame clinico della spalla dolorosa: quali sono i test utili

The shoulder pain in the athlete is a treatment and diagnostic pitfall. The literature showes a lot of tests with different specificity and sensitivity value - though sometimes unproven - which can be helpful to find out a diagnostic orientation. This work pais particular attention to semeiology, and describes the most guiding and reliable test now used in clinical examination of the shoulder, such as impingement tests, and the assessement of rotator cuff and instability. A clinical overview of the shoulder pain in the athlete is essential because impingement pathologies are often due to subtler pictures of instability