The long head biceps tendon is a common culprit of anterior shoulder pain and dysfunction that can be surgically treated with tenotomy or tenodesis.Many techniques exist for tenodesis.This article submits an arthroscopic technique using two loop-and-tack sutures and read more a knotless suture anchor to tenodese the long head biceps tendon in the proximal bicipital groove in situ.The advantage of this technique is that it maintains the biceps in its native position by performing tenodesis before tenotomy.
Most other techniques attempt to restore native position of the biceps hiboost 4k smart link through approximation.The transverse humeral ligament is also released to decompress the bicipital groove.This technique can be used to treat isolated biceps pathology or combined with rotator cuff and labral procedures.