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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American) 83:1273-1274 (2001)
© 2001 The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

Letters to The Editor

Who Really First Described and Explained the Suprascapular Nerve Entrapment Syndrome?

Marko Pecina, MD, PhD, Craig A. Cummins, MD, Terry M. Messer, MD and Gordon W. Nuber, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Salata 7, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia E-mail address: prof.marko.pecina@usa.net
Corresponding author: Craig A. Cummins, MD, Lake Cook Orthopaedic Associates, 27401 West Highway 22, Suite 125, Barrington, IL 60010 E-mail address: craigacummins@hotmail.com

To The Editor:

In your esteemed journal, or better said, our journal, since orthopaedic physicians all around the world consider The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery our best journal, the article "Suprascapular Nerve Entrapment" (82-A: 415-424, March 2000), by Cummins et al., was excellent, as is usual for your Current Concepts Reviews. I found it to be very useful since I have been studying the so-called tunnel syndromes (peripheral nerve compression syndromes or entrapment neuropathies) for a great number of years. There was a minor drawback in that the authors were oriented exclusively toward papers published in English, a practice that is becoming almost universal. I do not wish, however, to bemoan the unchangeable fact that nowadays a paper must be published in English for it to have any chance for recognition. Similarly, the authors failed to consult books dealing with nerve entrapment syndromes (tunnel syndromes or peripheral nerve compression syndromes), . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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