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For many people, nonsurgical treatments are enough to ease shoulder impingement symptoms. But if these treatments haven’t worked, surgery may be a choice.

SLAP stands for Superior Labrum Anterior to Posterior. This means that the upper rim of the tough, flexible tissue of the shoulder (labrum) has been torn from front to back.

The shoulder joint is enclosed by the capsule--a sheet of ligaments and other tough fibers. During a shoulder dislocation, capsule fibers can pull on and tear the labrum. A Bankart lesion is the name for a tear that happens in the lower rim of the tough, flexible tissue (labrum) of the shoulder.

A SLAP lesion is a shoulder injury. It happens when there is a tear in the labrum. This is the fibrous cartilage that helps hold the shoulder joint in place. Surgery can repair this injury.

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