Ability of arm in condition of pain and non scapular muscle pain
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Objective: To study arm’s ability in subjects with and without scapular muscle pain.
Methods: Cross sectional design was performed in 53 office worker volunteers, six male and forty seven female (age between 21-55 years). The working hours for each participant were between 8-12 hours a day. Screening tests were performed to ensure that normal range of motion of the shoulder, no fracture or dislocation at cervical spine, shoulder, arm and thoracic spine, neurological injury or pathology at cervical spine or pain at forearm such as wrist and hand. The personal information, evaluated arm’s ability by QuickDASH questionnaire and scapular muscle pain by isometric test, were achieved independently by 3 investigators.
Results: There were twenty nine arms with scapular muscle pain and seventy seven arms without any scapular muscle pain. By QuickDASH questionnaire, the medians of arm’s ability for each group were 9.1 and 4.5 scores in sequence that presented statistically significant difference (Fisher’s exact;P-value < 0.05).
Conclusion: This study showed that arm without scapular muscle pain had significantly better arm’s ability than arm with scapular muscle pain by means of outcome from QuickDASH questionnaire.
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