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A muscle of the back of the shoulder that is one of the muscles making up the rotator cuff of the shoulder, and that rotates the humerus laterally and helps to abduct the arm.

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  • Turns out it's a damaged supraspinatus tendon and it will probably take a couple of years to get better!
  • The principal ones which are attached to the scapula and humerus that act as ligaments are the supraspinatus (antea-spinatus), infraspinatus
  • -- With partial or complete suspension of function of the suprascapular nerve there results enervation of the supraspinatus and infraspinatus muscles.
  • The nerve rounds the anterior border of the neck of the scapula, passing upward and backward under the supraspinatus (antea-spinatus) muscle and terminating in the...
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