An interesting article out of Science Daily a few days ago. You can read the full text following the link below, but the short version is that people with relatives that have rotator cuff injuries are more prone to having them themselves.

Of course, researchers are wondering if there is a genetic component to it. I’ll be really interested to see where this goes.

What they didn’t talk about at all is how much interaction that the family members have with one another or how often they see each other. I talked a few posts ago about mirroring, or a person’s propensity to take on the movement patterns (among other people) of the people around you. Children are said to get 80% of their posture habits from one parent.

I’m extrapolating at this point, but if you take a genetic predisposition, and combine it with learned poor movement patterns, it would make sense that these injury patterns would show up in families.

Rotator Cuff Tears: Are They All In The Family?

Thoughts?