Interrater reliability of clinical tests to evaluate scapulothoracic motion

BACKGROUND: Decreased scapulothoracic motion has been associated with various pathologies of the shoulder. Reliable and simple assessment methods of scapular mobility are, however lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the interrater reliability of four clinical tests to assess scapulothorac...

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Autores principales: Baertschi, Evelyn, Swanenburg, Jaap, Brunner, Florian, Kool, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24192253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-315
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author Baertschi, Evelyn
Swanenburg, Jaap
Brunner, Florian
Kool, Jan
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description BACKGROUND: Decreased scapulothoracic motion has been associated with various pathologies of the shoulder. Reliable and simple assessment methods of scapular mobility are, however lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the interrater reliability of four clinical tests to assess scapulothoracic motion in patients with a slightly restricted shoulder flexion. METHODS: A total of nineteen patients with a symptomatic slight restriction of shoulder flexion and twenty asymptomatic subjects were evaluated. The investigation consisted of four palpatory tests to assess scapulothoracic motion. A two-level rating scale (positive, negative) was utilised. Interrater reliability was evaluated using kappa coefficients. RESULTS: We found substantial to almost perfect (Kappa = 0.63-0.4) interrater reliability for the four tests. CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrates that the four mobility tests of the shoulder are a reliable and simple instrument to assess patients with a slightly restricted shoulder flexion. Future studies should be conducted to evaluate the validity of these tests and to establish their clinical usefulness.
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spelling pubmed-38265162013-11-14 Interrater reliability of clinical tests to evaluate scapulothoracic motion Baertschi, Evelyn Swanenburg, Jaap Brunner, Florian Kool, Jan BMC Musculoskelet Disord Research Article BACKGROUND: Decreased scapulothoracic motion has been associated with various pathologies of the shoulder. Reliable and simple assessment methods of scapular mobility are, however lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the interrater reliability of four clinical tests to assess scapulothoracic motion in patients with a slightly restricted shoulder flexion. METHODS: A total of nineteen patients with a symptomatic slight restriction of shoulder flexion and twenty asymptomatic subjects were evaluated. The investigation consisted of four palpatory tests to assess scapulothoracic motion. A two-level rating scale (positive, negative) was utilised. Interrater reliability was evaluated using kappa coefficients. RESULTS: We found substantial to almost perfect (Kappa = 0.63-0.4) interrater reliability for the four tests. CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrates that the four mobility tests of the shoulder are a reliable and simple instrument to assess patients with a slightly restricted shoulder flexion. Future studies should be conducted to evaluate the validity of these tests and to establish their clinical usefulness. BioMed Central 2013-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3826516/ /pubmed/24192253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-315 Text en Copyright © 2013 Baertschi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24192253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-315
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