Shoulder Motion Guided Patient Diagnostic and Treatment Classification

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · Apr 1, 2014

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ClinConnect Summary

Shoulder disorders account for the second largest number of musculoskeletal cases in the United States with a large health care burden. The current standard for diagnosis of shoulder disorders is a clinical exam, visual motion assessment and in some cases, costly magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. However, specific tissue pathologies are not always accurately identified, and often not directly linked to the magnitude of dysfunction. There is a need for categorizing or sub-grouping patients based on the underlying movement dysfunctions with which they present. Video fluoroscopy is a common cli...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Normal subjects with normal normal shoulder movement and function will be included, age and gender matched to symptomatic subjects.
• • Symptomatic subjects will be included if visual shoulder movement deviates from what might be considered normal; they are experiencing shoulder pain with movement, and clinical examination is consistent with soft tissue cumulative trauma to the soft tissues (rotator cuff disease).
• • Clinical MR imaging will be used to confirm rotator cuff disease, subacromial bursitis, and/or bicipital tendinitis.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Age outside the accepted range. Contraindications to radiation exposure (pregnancy or possible pregnancy, other recent substantive radiation exposures (CT scanning, treatments involving radiation). Subjects unable to move through at least 90 degrees of shoulder motion will also be excluded.