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The validity and intra-tester reliability of a clinical measure of humeral head position
- Source :
- Manual therapy. 14(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of criterion validity and intra-tester reliability of humeral head palpation in subjects with shoulder pathology. The study also sought to determine whether there was any effect of arm position on humeral head position in subjects with shoulder pathology. In a same day repeated measures design, 27 subjects had the distance between the most anterior portion of the humeral head and the anterior edge of the acromion measured by a radiologist using MRI (supine), and by a physiotherapist using palpation and photography (supine, sit with arm in neutral and in abduction). The Standard Error of Measurement (SEM) for the difference between MRI and palpation ranged from 3.4 to 4.4mm and correlated significantly with palpation measures in sit (r=0.57-0.64, p
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Supine position
Intraclass correlation
Posture
Validity
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Palpation
Double-Blind Method
medicine
Humans
Humerus
Acromion
Aged
Orthodontics
Observer Variation
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Repeated measures design
Reproducibility of Results
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
medicine.anatomical_structure
Shoulder Impingement Syndrome
Physical therapy
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15322769
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Manual therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....664092887c4b73c2bd9e97bd9f6239c2