Long-term results of conservative treatment of 29 patients for the period from 2004 to 2017 and treated on the basis of the Mogilev Regional Hospital and the SCCE of the 6th State Clinical Hospital of Minsk were studied. Indications for conservative treatment were cases with traumatic partial local or extensive damage to the rotational bicepital complex in the presence of clinical manifestations in the form of pain syndrome and limiting limb movements and in the absence of a decrease in limb strength during sectoral testing of elements. The proposed tactical approaches implied immobilization, physiotherapy, local injecting therapy. The applied conservative approaches to the treatment of patients with damage to the RBC rotator element made it possible to achieve a favorable outcome in the vast majority of cases with long observation periods of patients, which allowed improving the function evaluation parameters according to the Oxford questionnaire for the shoulder of Me [Q25; Q75] from 56 [48; 58] to 12 [12; 32].
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