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Popular Surgery To Ease Chronic Shoulder Pain Called Into Question

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Doctors think the chronic pain of "shoulder impingement" may arise from age-related tendon and muscle degeneration, or from a bone spur that can rub against a tendon. (Michele Constantini/PhotoAlto/Getty Images)
Doctors think the chronic pain of "shoulder impingement" may arise from age-related tendon and muscle degeneration, or from a bone spur that can rub against a tendon. (Michele Constantini/PhotoAlto/Getty Images)

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