Shoulder pain is the common problem and debilitating problem. And its etiology remains poorly understood. One of the etiology is the rotator duff tear.
Arthrography has been considered standard diagnostic method for detecting rotator cuff tear but it is invasive.
So, we performed non-invasive sonographic examination on the 160 shoulders-84 painful shoulders, 76 asymptomatic shoulders-from 80 patients with painful shoulder. We grouped 80 patients into three, group one is the 20 hemiplegic patients older
than
50
years, group two is the 40 non-hemiplegic patients older than 50 years, group three is the 20 non-hemiplegic patients younger than 50 years. Mean age was 61.9, 60.0 and 37.8 year old in each group.
The rate of the positive sonographic finding of supraspinatus tendon tear was 70%, 72.5% and 50% in each group. The pain was highly correlated with the supraspinatus tendon tear findings on the sonography (P<0.01)
We checked variable factors such as aging, hemiplegic conditio, limited range of motion, history of trauma whether or not affect the supraspinatus tendon ter incidence. The aging was the only possible affecting factor that increase the incidence
of
cupraspinatus tendon tear in our study.
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