A case study done by Kyle E. Miller, who is a graduate of medical education at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, the study was done to a male weightlifter who ended up rupturing his bicep. This whole accident came about when the male was lifting weights and he was doing bicep curls when all of a sudden he felt a snap. Right away he did not do anything but then went to a clinic about three days after the accident and the doctors found out that he had ruptured the long head of the bicep brachii. The author talks about how this was such a rare case done to a twenty eight year old who was healthy and was in great shape. There was no one real reason that pointed the doctors in the right direction for what had caused this. Doctors and the patient …show more content…
The researchers also made a point that muscles that rupture usually happen in older adults and it was very rare for this to happen to someone that is twenty eight and was a former U.S. Navy technician. When the male went into the clinic and showed them his arm the muscle looked deformed and all of the muscle fibers were in a ball and the skin was bruised. The doctors found out that the rest of the shoulder was unharmed from the rupture and did not need any further examination. The operation consisted of a open bicep tenodesis and when they reattached the muscle the research team had found that the tendon showed signs of trauma and microscopic inflammation. These findings lead them to believe that the rupture was a cause of trauma to the tendon which was a rare. As their follow up they followed him into his journey of rehab and what types of thing that he was doing to recovery faster. There were statistics that showed that patients that underwent tenodesis made a full recovery and went back to the level of sport and activity that they were previously at. This being said, the male subject returned back to full work at around six weeks after the