4 Shoulder Flashcards
What are tests for shoulder instability?
- Anterior Instability aka Crank
- Anterior Drawer
- Sulcus Sign
- Jerk
- Muscle Tests
What are tests for shoulder impingement?
- Hawkins-Kennedy
- Neer
- (Myotome/Dermatome/DTR)
What are tests for shoulder labral tear?
- Clunk
- Speed’s
What are tests for AC joint pathology?
- Horizontal Adduction (aka AC Crossover aka AC Crossbody)
- Acromioclavicular Shear
What are tests for GH joint pathology?
- Ellman’s Compression Rotation
What are tests for shoulder muscle/tendon pathology?
- Yegason’s
- Speed’s
- Drop Arm aka Codman’s
- Empty Can
What are tests for shoulder neurological problems?
- Drop Arm aka Codman’s
- Empty Can
- Myotome/Dermatome/DTR
- Muscle Tests
What’s a test to generally test shoulder mobility?
- Apley’s Scratch
What are the joints of the shoulder complex?
- GH
- AC
- SC
- ST
What’s close-packed position for the the GH joint?
full abduction and lateral rotation
What’s close-packed position for the the AC joint?
arm is abducted to 90°
What’s the close-packed position for the SC joint?
full elevation (of GH)
What’s resting/loose-packed position for the GH joint?
55° of abduction with 30° of horizontal adduction
What’s resting/loose-packed position for the AC joint?
arm at side
What’s resting/loose-packed position for the SC joint?
arm at side
What’s resting/loose-packed position for the ST joint?
arm at side
What’s the capsular pattern at the GH joint? (in order of most to least limited)
lateral rotation, abduction, medial rotation
What’s the capsular pattern at the AC joint? (in order of most to least limited)
pain at the extreme ROM (of GH) especially in horizontal adduction and abduction
What’s the capsular pattern at the SC joint? (in order of most to least limited)
pain at the extreme ROM (of GH) especially in horizontal adduction and abduction
What’s the capsular pattern at the SC joint? (in order of most to least limited)
N/A
What % of people with diabetes will get frozen shoulder?
10-20%
What visceral structures can refer pain to the shoulder? What are the overall referral patterns of these structures?
- heart: chest (tightness), left anterior shoulder and down left arm
- lung and diaphragm: shoulder (usually same side as the lung problem)
- liver and gall bladder: right upper shoulder (upper traps area)
What are things to generally observe for shoulder complaints?
- regular landmarks
- HFC (head forward carriage)
- alignment of head of humerus with acromion
- IR
- step deformity (this means dislocation or separation)
- winging
- tipping
What are rule outs for the shoulder?
- c-spine
- t-spine
- elbow
- TOS
- (TMJ)