This procedure is called a tendon transfer. Most tendon transfers are performed in the forearm and hand. Surgeons perform some tendon transfers in the lower extremity (legs, ankles, and feet), but ...

In patients without shoulder subluxation, a modified Sever-L'Episcopo transfer can be used to effect ... a concentrically reduced shoulder before tendon transfers in older children, teenagers ...

In 1934, L'Episcopo [14] reported a transfer of the teres major and latissimus dorsi tendons from the anteromedial to the posterolateral aspect of the humerus to provide an active external rotator ...