Ageing and Proprioception in the asymptomatic shoulder: an observational cohort with reliability assessment. - AGEING AND PROPRIOCEPTIO

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

TBD

End Date

January 23, 2019

Last Updated

2 years ago

Study Type

Observational non invasive

Sponsor

•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)