Affiliation:
1. Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic, Inglewood, California
Abstract
Four professional pitchers with resistant scapulotho racic bursitis who have required surgical excision of the thickened bursa are reported. The average time dura tion of symptoms prior to surgery was 18.8 months. Conservative therapy consisting of rest, shoulder ex ercises, antiinflammatory medications, and cortisone injections failed to resolve the bursitis, and each pitcher was unable to compete secondary to pain. The incision was posterior, just distal to the tip of the scapula. The specimens contained cleft-like spaces lined by synovial tissue consistent with a bursa. All four pitchers returned to professional baseball the year following surgical excision of the bursa. We rec ommend early, aggressive, conservative therapy for scapulothoracic bursitis in the throwing athlete. Pitch ers with a thickened, resistant scapulothoracic bursitis should have the bursa surgically excised.
Subject
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
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