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Comparison Between Neck and Shoulder Stiffness Determined by Shear Wave Ultrasound Elastography and a Muscle Hardness Meter.
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Ultrasound in medicine & biology [Ultrasound Med Biol] 2015 Aug; Vol. 41 (8), pp. 2266-71. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 May 02. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The goals of this study were to compare neck and shoulder stiffness values determined by shear wave ultrasound elastography with those obtained with a muscle hardness meter and to verify the correspondence between objective and subjective stiffness in the neck and shoulder. Twenty-four young men and women participated in the study. Their neck and shoulder stiffness was determined at six sites. Before the start of the measurements, patients rated their present subjective symptoms of neck and shoulder stiffness on a 6-point verbal scale. At all measurement sites, the correlation coefficients between the values of muscle hardness indices determined by the muscle hardness meter and shear wave ultrasound elastography were not significant. Furthermore, individuals' subjective neck and shoulder stiffness did not correspond to their objective symptoms. These results suggest that the use of shear wave ultrasound elastography is essential to more precisely assess neck and shoulder stiffness.<br /> (Copyright © 2015 World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Elastic Modulus physiology
Female
Hardness physiology
Hardness Tests instrumentation
Humans
Male
Neck diagnostic imaging
Physical Examination instrumentation
Physical Examination methods
Reproducibility of Results
Sensitivity and Specificity
Shoulder diagnostic imaging
Young Adult
Elasticity Imaging Techniques methods
Hardness Tests methods
Muscle, Skeletal diagnostic imaging
Muscle, Skeletal physiology
Neck physiopathology
Shoulder physiopathology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1879-291X
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 8
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Ultrasound in medicine & biology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25944285
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2015.04.001