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A Patient's Guide to the Biceps Tendon

Biceps Tendon

Key Points

The long head of the biceps (LHB) originates at and around the supraglenoid tubercle. Although it is intra-articular, it is extrasynovial.
Although acute ruptures of the LHB do occur, LHB ruptures are more commonly the result of chronic biceps tendonitis.
There is such a close association between subacromial impingement and biceps tendonitis that the [...]