Ageing and Proprioception in the asymptomatic shoulder: an observational cohort with reliability assessment.
- Conditions
- Asymptomatische participanten ten behoeve van onderzoek naar pees-, ligament- en kraakbeenaandoeningen (SAPS).Asymptomatic participants
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON46736
- Lead Sponsor
- eids Universitair Medisch Centrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 120
Asymptomatic volunteers with an evenly distributed age of 18 through 70 years. Volunteers are considered for inclusion in case of no current or past complaint in either shoulder the last two year, defined by a Visual Analogue Scale for shoulder pain of < 10mm (0-100mm, 0 indicates no pain).
- Younger than 18 years old.
- History of shoulder complaints (e.g. pain, instability, dysfunction), i.e. volunteers who received medical attention for a shoulder complaint or experienced shoulder complaints (impaired function or experienced pain) > 1 week.
- No full range of motion during physical examination
- Pregnancy
- History of malignancy, traumatic shoulder injury, fracture of the shoulder, osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis, frozen shoulder, previous shoulder injections or shoulder surgery, neurologic disease or muscle disease, diabetes mellitus
- No informed consent
- Insufficient Dutch language skills
- Electronic implants (e.g. Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator, pacemakers)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>For the assessment of proprioception we will test Joint Position Reproduction<br /><br>(JPR) in a 3-Dimensional motion tracking device (Flock of Birds).</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Participants will also rate the subjective JPR acuity during all measurements.<br /><br>The Constant score will be obtained once and demographic characteristics will<br /><br>be noted.</p><br>