OBJECTIVE To describe the impact of shoulder injuries on professional cricketers during the 2005 England and Wales first class cricket season. DESIGN Professional cricketers in England were asked to complete two questionnaires relating to shoulder injuries. Players who returned both questionnaires were included in this study. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS The impact of any shoulder pain whilst ...

The human shoulder is a complicated musculoskeletal structure and is a perfect compromise between mobility and stability. The objective of this paper is to provide a thorough review of previous finite element (FE) studies in biomechanics of the human shoulder complex. Those FE studies to investigate shoulder biomechanics have been reviewed according to the physiological and clinical problems ad...

STUDY DESIGN Psychometric study design. OBJECTIVES To assess the test-retest reliability and convergent validity of the Functional Impairment Test-Hand and Neck/Shoulder/Arm (FIT-HaNSA) in patients with shoulder disorders. BACKGROUND Performance tests that assess functional ability of patients with shoulder disorders can provide useful information for making clinical or return-to-activity d...

conclusions prophylactic gabapentin administration could be considered as an effective and safe intervention to reduce occurrence and severity of plsp after gynecologic laparoscopic cystectomy. results comparing the gabapentin (n = 20) and placebo (n = 20) groups, basic characteristics including age (p = 0.446), body mass index (bmi) (p = 0.876), pregnancy history (p = 0.660), and surgery time ...

background patients who have shoulder pain usually have compensatory or contributory deviation of shoulder motion during arm elevation. in the traditional scapulohumeral rhythm, the share of the acromioclavicular (ac) and the sternoclavicular (sc) joint movements and also the role of ac internal rotation angle are unknown. objectives the main purpose of this study was to measure and compare the...

a 16-day-old female was referred with congenital swelling on her right shoulder. on examination, there was a hard, round, ecchymotic, nontender, slightly movable, warm and shiny 10x15 cm mass on the right axillary pits which was extended to the right side of neck and chest wall. the mass separated the shoulder from the chest wall causing paralysis of right hand. chest x-ray, ultrasound and mri ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlation between hemiplegic shoulder pain factors during the acute and chronic stages of stroke recovery. DESIGN A prospective longitudinal study. SUBJECTS Seventy-six stroke patients with hemiplegic shoulders. METHODS Hemiplegic shoulder pain and clinical, physical, and sonography results were recorded at admission and during both acute (before discharge) ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the beneficial effect of botulinum toxin A (Botox) injection into the subscapularis muscle on intractable hemiplegic shoulder pain. METHODS Six stroke patients with intractable hemiplegic shoulder pain were included. Botulinum toxin A was injected into the subscapularis muscle. Intractable hemiplegic shoulder pain was evaluated using an 11-point numerical rating scale. P...