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A 45-year-old taxi driver presents with a 6-month history of non-specific anterior shoulder pain. He does not describe any injury but finds that his symptoms are a lot worse after a busy day behind the wheel. Clinical examination reveals tenderness over the tip of the coracoid and a pain provocation over the coracoid area on adduction, forward flexion and internal rotation. Bear hug testing showed weakness of subscapularis along with associated pain.
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Mosaid, S.M., Talbot, C. (2017). Coracoid Impingement. In: Monga, P., Funk, L. (eds) Diagnostic Clusters in Shoulder Conditions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57334-2_11
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