You are treating a patient with a right rotator cuff strain. The critical zone in the supraspinatus tendon is very susceptible to a tear because of the patient’s age. It is called the critical zone because the tendon has:
1. atrophy
2. hypertrophy
3. hypervascularity
4. hypovascularity
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