肩痛是影响竞技游泳运动员最常见的肌肉骨骼疾病。肩痛的最早报告出现在1972年慕尼黑奥运会上。加拿大有35名游泳运动员参加那届奥运会,其中有许多人出现肩痛。他们共计有43人次看骨科门诊,其中看肩痛的有16次,占骨科门诊量的37%,居骨科发病率之首。事实上,游泳运动员饱受肩痛折磨并非罕见。这是由于在训练和比赛中,运动员每年可能要完成超过100万次的肩膀旋转,参见T墨菲TC(1994)报告。在 Shoulder pain is the most common musculoskeletal condition affecting competitive swimmers. The earliest report of shoulder pain appeared at the 1972 Munich Olympics. There are 35 swimmers in Canada participating in the Olympic Games, many of them shoulder pain. They had a total of 43 visits orthopedic clinic, of which 16 times shoulder pain, accounting for 37% of orthopedic outpatient, ranking first in the incidence of orthopedic. In fact, it is not uncommon for swimmers to suffer from shoulder pain. This is due to the fact that during training and competition athletes may have over 1 million shoulder rotations per year, see T Murphy TC (1994). in