Over 40? Your rotator cuff probably looks a little rough

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MRI scans reveal normal, age-related changes in people’s shoulders Nearly all adults older than 40 have some sort of rotator cuff abnormality that’s visible via MRI. That’s just normal aging, a new study suggests. After age 40, we may all have busted-looking shoulders. But that doesn’t mean anything is wrong. In a study of hundreds of people, MRI images showed that nearly every person scanned had frayed, torn or otherwise abnormal rotator cuff tendons, researchers report February 16 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Those abnormalities didn’t automatically signify problems or a need for surgery, though — they showed up in people with or without symptoms. One take-home message is that MRIs aren’t so useful for diagnosing shoulder pain, says Brian Feeley, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco who wasn’t involved with the work. Instead, the imaging test reveals a bigger picture about aging: When it comes to the structure of our skeletons and all the tendons and tissues that support it, he says, our bodies look different as
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