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Background: Shoulder complaints are caused by suprascapular neuropathy in 1-2% of patients. This rare condition is characterised by slowly progressing shoulder pain, which has as a consequence restriction of movement and loss of strength. The most frequent causes are tear of the rotator cuff or a space occupying lesion., Case Description: A 30-year-old man presented with slowly arising shoulder pain with subsequent also loss of strength and atrophy of the shoulder. A MRI scan of the shoulder showed a cyst in the glenoid cavity. Using EMG suprascapular neuropathy was diagnosed. The cyst was removed by operation and the patient recovered well., Conclusion: The diagnosis 'suprascapular neuropathy' was made using EMG. Space occupying lesions of the shoulder can be excluded by X-ray and MRI. The treatment is primarily conservative, with physiotherapy and pain management.

A 31-year-old sailor came to the hospital with a bursted wound of his left hallux. Earlier that day, he had cut his left hallux and the wound had already been stitched elsewhere. On physical examination a dangling left hallux was observed and a ruptured tendon of the M. extensor hallucis longus.