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UCLA’s Keefe benched due to shoulder injury, but recovery likely

James KeefeUCLA forward James Keefe will miss two to three weeks with the team to recovery from a dislocated left shoulder. The senior was injured during the first half of UCLA’s game against New Mexico State on December 15th. The injury occurred on the same shoulder that required surgery for a torn labrum in 2007.

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Three new complaints filed against pain pump manufacturers

pain pump shoulderAttorneys with Beasley Allen Law Firm and attorneys with partnering firms have filed three separate alleging that pain pump devices implanted in the shoulder during and after surgery to repair shoulder injuries were unreasonably and dangerously defective beyond the extent contemplated by ordinary patients.

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Swimmers can suffer shoulder injury from repetitive overhead movements

Butterfly Swimming 100x100Swimming is often touted as the perfect exercise, working several muscles throughout the body with such low impact that it makes injuries less likely than in other sports. But a recent study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine reported that 71 out of 80 elite male swimmers experienced shoulder pain. The pain from this “swimmers shoulder” comes from either tendonitis or from the pinching of the rotator cuff muscle. The culprit? Repetitive overhead movements, such as those from the main swimming strokes such as freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke and backstroke.

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