Clinical aspects of bicipital tendinitis
- • Anterior shoulder pain.
- • Pain worsened with active shoulder movement.
- • Positive Yergason’s maneuver and/or Speed’s test.
- • Less pain with passive movement.
- • Absence of swelling, redness, or warmth at shoulder joint.
- • Focal tenderness when area overlying long head of biceps tendon is palpated ( Fig. 62.2 ).
- • Frequently accompanies the impingement syndrome.
