Shoulder hypo mobility Flashcards
What is the abnormal capsular end feel and capsular pattern of a hypo mobile shoulder
- Abnormal capsular end feels: abnormal - sit without creep, leather like
- Capsular pattern: GH limitation of ER>ABD>IR
Joint assessments of a hypo mobile shoulder
Quality, quantity
Joint play, accessory/component motions – limited
Shoulder hypomobility presents as?
- Joint restriction:
- Capsular ligamentous tightness
- AROM = PROM
- Pain at the end ranges - Muscle tightness
What are the typical causes of hypomobility
- post trauma/injury or surgery
- protection, immobilization, habitual poor posture
Post trauma/injury or post surgery - tissue repair phase 2:
- : proliferation: peaks 3 weeks tapers 3-6 weeks
- Controlled mobility: tissue healing, protocol may restrict range
- Want controlled mobility here while the tissue is being laid down to make it more extensible and align the fibers
Post trauma/injury or post surgery - tissue repair phase 3
- maturation:
- Window of 14 weeks best influence on scar tissue mobility
- Progressive - prevent non-yielding scar tissue
Protection, immobilization, habitual poor posture
- Adaptive shortening
- Hypomobile: involved joint or adjacent joint
Cause of adhesive capsulitis/frozen shoulder
- Cause: idiopathic/insidious onset
- Generally occurs post injury or post surgery due to immobilization/protection
- Post surgery - shoulder, cardiac, abdominal
- Inflammatory process
Incidence of adhesive capsulitis
- Older population: age 40-60
- Females more likely to get it than males
- Greater risk patients: diabetes, thyroid disease
Classification types of adhesive capsulitis
- primary
- secondary
Primary adhesive capsulitis
- idiopathic
secondary adhesive capsulitis
- systemic
- extrinsic
- intrinsic
Secondary adhesive capsulitis: systemic
- diabetes
- thyroid disease
extrinsic secondary adhesive capsulitis
- Humerus shaft fracture
- CVA
- Cardiac surgery
Intrinsic secondary adhesive capsulitis casues
- rotator cuff or long head of biceps tendonitis or tear
- shoulder surgery
Pathogenesis/clinical manifestations of adhesive capsulitis
- Contracture of capsule and ligaments
- Inflammatory synovitis → capsule fibrosis
- Capsule fibrosis notes upon arthroscopy (there are certain areas where these are generally located) -Coracohumeral ligament, Capsular ligament, Axillary pouch
- Shoulder contracture
Limited motion for adhesive capsulitis
- Capsular pattern for shoulder = ER limited > abduction limited > IR
- Diminished joint play and accessory motions
What are the stages of adhesive capsulitis
- freezing
- frozen
- thawing
Freezing stage of adhesive capsulitis - time frame
- signs and symptoms
- 2.5-9 months
- Inflammatory synovitis
- Pain at rest
- ROM progressively decreasing
- Empty end feel → wont let you move it they are in too much pain
- High irritability classification
Frozen phase of adhesive capsultits
- time Frame
- signs and symptoms
- 4-12 months:
- Fibrosis adhesions in joint capsule (capsular fibrosis)
- Decreased ROM capsule pattern (ER>ABD>IR)
- Pain at end ranges
- See RC, deltoid atrophy due to decrease use
- No inflammation
- Moderate irritability classification
Thawing phase of adhesive capsulitis
- 2-24 months
- No inflammatory synovitis
- ROM improving: no/minimal pain except at end ranges
- Returning to function
- Low irritability classification
What is the irritability classifications (adhesive capsulitis
- high irritability
- moderate irritability
- low irritability
High irritability classification
- Pain: 7 or higher + night and resting pain
- Disability score: high DASH
- End range pain: prior to reaching end range
- AROM < PROM secondary to pain (they do not want to initiate pain)
Moderate irritability classification
- Pain: 4-6 + intermittent night and rest pain
- Diability score: moderate DASH score
- Pain at end range ROM
- AROM ~ PROM