Correlation Between Cyriax's Functional Examination and Ultrasound Examination in Patients With Shoulder Pain

Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Shoulder Pain

Treatments

Device: Ultrasound examination

Other: Cyriax's functional examination

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02688205

20140107R

SKH-8302-103-DR-37 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Shoulder problems cause substantial disability in daily living, work, leisure activity, and exercise. The presence of shoulder problem such as rotator cuff pathology reported was highly predictive of impaired health-related quality of life.

Many tests were used for physical examination of the shoulder. The reliability and validity of the tests have been studied before. However, a systemic review concluded that there was conflicting evidence in reliability of each or combined tests. Functional examination of the shoulder by Cyriax is composed of a series of tests to evaluate a shoulder problem. It includes three arm elevation, three tests for glenohumeral joints, and six resisted tests.

As far as the investigators know, correlation of Cyriax functional examination with the ultrasonographic findings has never been reported before. Therefore, the aim of this study is to compare the clinical diagnosis by Cyriax's functional examination with ultrasound findings in patients with shoulder pain.

Full description

There are two groups with fifty patients in each group. First group is patients who have unilateral or bilateral shoulder pain from the outpatient clinic of Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital. The other group is control group who has no shoulder problems. Both groups will receive Cyriax's functional examination of the shoulder after history taking, and will be examined by shoulder ultrasound in one week.

Enrollment

206 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 85 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Study group:

patients with unilateral or bilateral shoulder pain with unknown causes;
age≥ 20 years old.

Control group:

patients without unilateral or bilateral shoulder pain;
age≥ 20 years old.

Exclusion criteria

chronic inflammatory joint disease, infections or tumors of the shoulder, previous fracture or surgery of shoulder, and referred pain from cervical origin or visceral organs.