A Retrospective Study to Evaluate the Outcome of Patients with Shoulder Pain

ABSTRACT

Background: Shoulder pain is a mutual and A debilitatingdiagnosis that people present with in health care that has a 1-year prevalence of up to 47% amongst the adult population.Strong evidence is found that high intensity pain and MiddleAges are related with poor outcomes. The present study aimedto evaluate the best predictors of patient outcome withshoulder pain.Materials and Methods: The present retrospective study wasconducted in the Department of orthopedics for a period of 2years. Presence of anterior or posterior drawer tests wereregarded as indicative of shoulder instability. Severe motionloss was considered if the patient had greater than 50% lack ofthe normal physiological range of motion. Patient’s werescreened on the basis of treatment received, treatmentfrequency, history, physical examination, presence ofcomorbidities and quickdash score. All the data was arrangedin a excel spreadsheet and analyzed using SPSS software.Probability value of less than 0.05 was regarded as significant.Results: There were a total of 130 subjects in the study. Therewere 55 females and 75 males in the study. The mean heightof the subjects was 171.65+/-9.22cm and the mean weight of84.32+/-19.82 Kgs. There was a significant change in thequickdash score amongst the subjects. The number of visits tothe doctor also showed significant effect.Conclusion: The quickdash score and the frequency of visitsto the health care center were important predictors of thepatient outcome in our study.