Shoulder Flashcards
What is the evidence to support the clinical course of frozen shoulder?
Moderate evidence for a course of 12- 18 months.
What are the four stages of frozen shoulder and how long does each stage last?
- stage 1
- 0-3 months
- stage 2
- 3-9 months
- stage 3
- 9-15 months
- stage 4
- 15 months or greate
What are the symptoms of frozen shoulder During stage 1?
- Pain with A/ prom
- limited flexion,abd, Ir,er
- pathological changes: hypertrophic, hypervascular, rare inflammatory cell infiltrates,normal underlying capsule
What are the characteristics of stage 2 frozen shoulder?
- duration 3-9 months
- chronic pain with a/prom
- significant limitation of flexion, abduction, er,Ir
- pathological changes: hypervascular, hypertrophic synovitis, with pervaxsular subsynovial scarring, fibroblasts and scar formation in underlying capsule
What are the characteristics of stage 3 for frozen shoulder?
- duration 9-15 months
- significant rom deficits with rigid endfeel
- minimal pain except at end range
- pathological changes: burnt out synovitis without hyper trophy, or hypervascularity, dense scar formation in the capsule
What are characteristics of stage 4 frozen shoulder?
- thawing stage - 15-24 months
- minimal pain
- progressive improvement in ROM
What is the evidence for risk factors in frozen shoulder?
- Weak evidence
- diabetes
- thyroid disease
- 40 - 65 yo female
- previous episode of frozen shoulder
What is the evidence for corticosteroid injections for treatment of frozen shoulder?
- Strong evidence
- use of injections combined with shoulder mobility and stretches are more effective than exercises alone for short term pain relief
What is the evidence to support patient education, activity modification and stretching?
Moderate evidence
- patient education
- activitymodification
- match intensity of stretch to the patients level of irritability
What is the level of evidence to support modalities in testing frozen shoulder?
Weak evidence for modalities
-clinicians may use modalities combined with mobility and stretching to reduce pain.
What is the evidence for joint mobilizations in treating frozen shoulder?
Weak evidence for joint mobs and transitional manipulations
How would you treat a patient who presents with high irritability with frozen shoulder?
- Activity modification
- Short duration stretching (1-5 sec) pain free p/ Aaron
- low grade mobs
- patient Ed
- injection
How would you treat someone who presents with moderate irritability?
Modalities ( heat, ice, estim)
- activity modification
- short duration (5-15 sec) prom/ arom / Aarom
- low to high grade mobs
- patient Ed
How would you threat someone with low irritability for frozen shoulder?
- Endrange overpressure
- high grade sustained mobs
- low to high resistance strengthening
- high demand functional activities
How would a patient with high irritability for frozen shoulder present?
- high pain (>7/10)
- consistent night pain/ resting pain
- high disability on the DASH, ASES, PSS
- paint prior to end range of motion
- arom
How would a patient with moderate irritability for frozen shoulder?
- Moderate Pain (4-6/10)
- intermittent night/ resting pain
- moderate disability on DASH, ASES, PSS
- Pain at end range
- arom=prom
How would someone present with low irratibility?
- Low Pain (=<3/10)
- no resting or night pain
- minimal pain with overpressure
- Arom= prom
What is the MOI for SLAP lesion?
Sudden downward force on a supinated overstretched upper extremity
What is a type 1 SLAP lesion?
Type 1
- degenerative fraying of the superior labrum
- biceps anchor intact
Superior labrum is debrided
What is a type 2 SLAP lesion?
Type 2
- biceps and anchor pulled away from glenoid
- lesion is repaired ( anchors, tacks, staples)
What is a type 3 SLAP lesion?
Type 3
- bucket handle tear of the superior labrum
- biceps intact
- surgery- torn fragment is resected
What is a type 4 SLAP lesion?
Type 4
- tear extends to biceps tendon
- biceps tendon/ labrum displaced to the joint
- <30% tear resected,
- > 30% tear older population labrum is debrided
- younger population - suture repair
What are two special tests to diagnose SLAP lesions?
Biceps load 1 and 2
Describe the biceps load 1 and 2 exam.
- patient supine with shoulder in 90 degrees abd and er
- forearm supinated
- PT externally rotates until the patient is apprehensive, then resists elbow flexion
- if pain stays the same or worsens
- (-) if apprehension improves
Name four complications of dislocations:
- Reoccurrence
- Vascular
- RC tear
- Nerve injuries
In what position of the arm does the superior GH ligament provide stability?
The sup. GH ligament resists huh translation with the arm adducted
What ligament provides stability with the arm abducted to 45 degrees?
The middle GH ligament provides stabilizing force with the arm abducted to 45 degrees.
What ligament provides stability with the arm at 90 degrees?
The inferior GH ligaments provide stability with the arm at 90 degrees of abduction.
Which ligament provides anterior stability?
The anterior inferior ligament provides anterior stability
What ligament provides posterior stability.
The posterior inferior ligament provides posterior stability?
Describe dynamic stability of the GH joint?
- Provides joint compression.
- Synergistic contraction of the RC
- Tensioning of the G H ligaments
- Weak SA,UT can lead to decrease in dynamic stability
What is the most common position of the arm in anterior dislocations?
- arm is extended,abducted and externall rotated by an indirect force
- majority are from trauma
What is the most common nerve injured during anterior dislocations?
- The axillary nerve is the most common nerve injured.
- happens at the region of surgical neck of the humerus
- traction and neuropraxia
What is the most common position for posterior dislocations?
Arm is adducted, flexed and internally rotated.
- MOI is a blow to the front of the shoulder
Shoulder dislocation: clinical exam neurovasc
- Acute
- Pre/post reduction neurovascular exam
- axillary, suprascapular, long thoracic nerve
- axillary most common injury
- Pre/post reduction neurovascular exam
Shoulder dislocation: clinical exam presentation
- Arm held against trunk, supported by the other arm, patient will resist attempts to move arm
- Sharp deltoid contour, more prominent acromion
- palpable fullness below coracoid
Shoulder dislocation sub acute exam
1) load and shift
2) apprehension/ relocation test
3) sulcus test
Radiological examination for shoulder dislocations pre reduction
Plain films
- Pre reduction
- AP w/ slight IR - greater tuberosity fracture
Radiological examination Post reduction
- Scapular AP- glenoid fossa Fox
- West Point Modified Axillary view
- IGHL avulsion, bony Bankart lesion, anterior- inferior glenoid deficiency
- Stryker Notch View - Hill- Sachs lesion
MRI for dislocations
Contrast enhancement is best
- in an acute injury hemarthrosis provides contrast- no contrast needed
Treatment of dislocations:
- Ages 15-25
- acute repair best
- rates of reinjury decrease from 80-90% down to 3-15% in young athletes
- Ages 25-40
- conservative care
- Age > 40
- conservative care
Immobilization for dislocations
- Can be up to six weeks, but depends on the patient
- younger patients<30 years
- sling in add,Ir for 2-3 weeks
- younger patients<30 years
- Patients >30 years
- sling 1-2 weeks
Non operative management for anterior dislocations:rehab
- Avoid er+abd
- Focus on scapular stabilization
- RC strengthening in the scar plane
- Strengthen infraspinatus and teres minorto draw HH posterior.
- Avoid pushups,bench press, IR, horizontal add and flexion
How does a patient with posterior dislocation present?
- Flattening of shoulder region
- arm held in adduction and Ir
What is the best radiological view for a Hill’s Sachs lesion?
Stryker notch view
What does AMBRI stand for?
Atraumatic Multidirectional instability Bilateral involvement Rehabilitation as first line of therapy Inferior capsule shift as best alternative surgical method
Explain why younger population has higher rate of reoccurrence of dislocation.
Theory
- Collegen type 3 fibers are supple + elastic. With each decade, we make less collagen producing cells, making collagen tougher (type 1 fibers)
TUBS anacronym
Traumatic
Unilateral
Bankart lesion
Surgery
What is a Bankart Lesion?
- Avulsion or detachment of the anterior GH ligament and glenoid labrum off the glenoid rim
- decreases the glenoid depth by 50%
- Incidence of 87-100% with initial dislocations