Central Neuromuscular Dysfunction, Functionality, Psychological Status and Rotator Cuff Surgery

Launched by HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY · Sep 30, 2022

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ClinConnect Summary

The problems experienced by the patients are not only physiological but also psychological and social. Unfortunately, there is no sufficient study focus on all these concepts.

For all these reasons, it is seen that in order to offer an individualized rehabilitation program to patients, it is needed to add psychological evaluation methods that can directly affect the results of treatment as well as physical and objective evaluations during the evaluation phase.

As a physical evaluation method, the cortico-spinal excitability of the deltoid muscle will be evaluated with the Transcranial Mag...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• * Inclusion Criteria for Patient Group:
• • 1. Volunteer to participate in the study,
• • 2. Be between the ages of 30 and 65,
• • 3. Individuals who have been diagnosed with massive rotator cuff tear and the who have undergone rotator cuff tear surgery,
• • 4. At least 6 months have passed after the surgery,
• • 5. In the last 6 months, patients have not undergone shoulder surgery except for rotator cuff tear surgery,
• • 6. Arthroscopic surgical method was performed by Prof. Dr. Gazi Huri,
• • 7. The absence of another lesion involving the shoulder joint, such as SLAP (Superior Labrum Anterior Posterior), recurrent shoulder dislocation, arthroplasty, except for massive complete tear in the patient will be included in the study.
• * Inclusion Criteria for Control Group :
• • 1. Demographic characteristics (age and gender) similar to the study group,
• • 2. Not having any diagnosis related to the shoulder joint.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Having any additional pathology (SLAP (Superior Labrum Anterior Posterior), recurrent shoulder dislocation, arthroplasty etc.) concerning the shoulder joint,
• • 2. Having a history of surgery involving the shoulder,
• • 3. Having a neuromuscular and/or metabolic disease,
• • 4. Presence of active infection
• • 5. Other coexisting neuromuscular and musculoskeletal pathologies,
• • 6. To have been diagnosed with bilateral RMY,
• • 7. Metal implants in the head and neck,
• • 8. Being pregnant,
• • 9. Those who use drugs that can change cortical excitability,
• • 10. Being a cancer patient,
• • 11. Individuals with cognitive and psychiatric disorders will not be included in this study.