[The athlete's shoulder : overview of the typical clinical presentations].

Shoulder injuries are common in athlete population. They can be due to trauma or overuse. Traumatic lesions are roughly the same in the non-athlete population. On the other hand, overuse lesions are specific to the sport, depending on the movements performed by the athlete. The majority of the early literature studied baseball pitchers. Pathophysiological theories have been applied to other overhead sport. In this article, we discuss briefly the main specificities and conditions of the painful athlete's shoulder.