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This chapter discusses the causes of shoulder weakness, its investigation and management with emphasis on the need to differentiate between true and apparent weakness.
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Panayiotou Charalambous, C. (2019). Shoulder Weakness. In: The Shoulder Made Easy . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98908-2_12
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