not exactly recent

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The presentation I'm working on about rotator cuff injuries is to be delivered to the people I'm working/studying with in the clinic. For the most part, via both school & practical experience, they will know way more than I can learn soon about the injuries & treatments, so they have suggested that I peruse the recent literature for interesting new stuff that they might not know. The find I have been most excited about thus far is actually something that was published in the London Medical Gazette in 1834. It popped up when I searched for articles from 2009 onward because it was reprinted as a "classic" article. They were all cadaver dissections with interesting shoulder problems that had not be treated. I don't actually know whether there were standard treatments then. Something to research SOME OTHER TIME. At any rate, cadaver #4, who had been a "hard-working woman at the wash-tub up to the time of her death" had what we'd call rotator cuff and biceps tendon tears that had sort of healed themselves in some ways, and had part of their missing function taken over by neighboring muscles. One of the articles I've seen that actually *is* from 2010 is about the fact that with good rehab (wash-tubs have not appeared in our clinic), people often do as well without having the tears surgically repaired.