Sentence examples for shoulder instruments from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, selecting an instrument for use in a shoulder trauma population is often problematic because most shoulder instruments were initially designed for use with chronic shoulder pathology patients.

A further limitation is that we did not compare the SPADI to competing shoulder instruments.

If the shoulder instruments were measuring the same constructs, one would expect a strong correlation since the same sample of subjects completed each of the questionnaires.

There are insufficient data from head-to-head comparisons of available shoulder instruments to identify the most responsive instrument for different shoulder pathologies [ 16].

Given the number of shoulder instruments reported in the literature, head-to-head comparisons determining the ability of different scales to detect treatment responses in different clinical situations are needed.

Additional studies were conducted to examine the validity of the SPADI either in isolation or in comparison to other shoulder instruments [ 3- 14] (These are summarized in appended supplementary tables. See Additional file 1).

However, they set out to develop, not only measures specific to the shoulder, but instruments specific to conditions of the shoulder.

The SPADI is no exception to this, even though it is one of the shoulder rating instruments that have been most extensively studied [ 12].

The qDASH was also administered, which is an 11-item, validated, shortened version of the 30-item Disabilities of the Arm and Shoulder (DASH) instrument.

The Constant Score has become the most widely used shoulder evaluation instrument in Europe.

Moderate-strong correlations were found with the specific shoulder-related instruments (SST and DASH), indicating adequate convergent validity.