background: neck and shoulder pains are the prevalent complaints among computer office workers. the purpose of this study was to assess the relationship of somatization tendency, expectation of pain, mental health and beliefs about causation of pain with persistence of neck/shoulder pains among computer office workers. methods: this research is a kind of prospective cohort study with 1‑year fol...

background: human body posture influences on his/her physiological functions. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of forward shoulder correction on pulmonary function of elementary female students. methods: subjects of this quasi-experimental research were two groups (n=20) of students with normal posture (np) and forward shoulder posture(fsp)  which is divided randomly into...

Few previous studies have investigated the pathomechanism and managements of rotator cuff lesions with shoulder stiffness. Based on observations by Codman in 1934, frozen shoulder presumably relates to rotator cuff tendenitis. In the past six decades, tended to discriminate primary frozen shoulder from secondary shoulder stiffness due to shoulder disorders such as rotator cuff lesions or trauma...

Background: Shoulder pain is a very prevalent musculoskeletal disorder. The incidence and prevalence of shoulder pain varies widely across literature. Various risk factors of shoulder pain like age, gender, obesity and diabetes have been considered in literature. Shoulder pain is reported to be more prevalent in middle aged females. Smoking has also been considered as an important risk factor. ...

OBJECTIVE To study the occurrence of shoulder subluxation, shoulder pain in stroke patients and identify factors associated to these conditions during rehabilitation period. MATERIAL AND METHOD Stroke patients from 9 rehabilitation centers from March to December 2006 were enrolled in the present study. All subjects were registered for demographic data including risk factors and type of stroke...

Our goal was to evaluate the shoulder dysfunction after radiotherapy in surgically and nonsurgically treated necks.A prospective pair matched design was performed. A total of 96 patients from 3 groups were enrolled in the study. The patients were asked to complete the shoulder domain section of the University of Washington Quality of Life questionnaire on 2 occasions: preoperatively and 12 mont...

The term ‘‘floating shoulder ’’ was introduced by Herscovici in 1992 [1], charactered by ipsilateral scapular neck and clavicular shaft fractures. The definition of ‘floating shoulder’’ has been criticized by many authors, and the widely accepted definition is a double disruption of the superior suspensory shoulder complex (SSSC) [2-5]. SSSC is a bony/soft tissue structure, playing important ro...

To further clarify possible sports injury of shoulder joint of excellent discus athletes at beginning phase of rotation and biomechanic characteristics demonstrated, the paper adopts close range dynamic stereo photography measurement method for fixed-point shooting of live competition, training of discus athletes. Comprehensive analysis and research of motion image and information is done with ...

BACKGROUND Total shoulder arthroplasty is increasingly used in the treatment of arthritis. However, the effect of total shoulder arthroplasty on health-related quality of life has not been fully established. The goal of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to characterize the change in generic and shoulder-specific health-related quality-of-life measures resulting from total shoulder ar...

PURPOSE The primary aims of this work were to (1) describe normal range of motion (ROM) profiles for elite pitchers, (2) describe the characteristics of shoulder and elbow injuries in professional pitchers over a 6-year period in one Major League Baseball organization, and (3) identify ROM measures that were independently associated with a future shoulder or elbow injury. METHODS Over 6 seaso...