Does the acromiohumeral distance matter in chronic rotator cuff related shoulder pain?

Abstract

There was a small association between AHD and shoulder pain and function, as well as with shoulder ROM, in patients with chronic RCRSP. Hence, clinicians should consider other possibilities rather than focusing their therapies only in increasing AHD when patients with chronic RCRSP are treated.

Non-traumatic chronic shoulder pain is not associated with changes in rotator cuff interval tendon thickness

“…Previous studies have shown a lack of correlation between symptoms (e.g., pain, disability) and tendon thickness in patients with full rotator cuff tears (Curry et al, 2015;Dunn et al, 2014;Wylie et al, 2016), and also after a rotator cuff repair (Tham et al, 2013), which is in agreement with the results from the present study since we only observed non-significant associations between rotator interval tendon thickness and shoulder pain-function. However, others studies advocate that the increase in the size of the tear appears to be highly correlated with pain (Moosmayer et al, 2010;Tashjian, 2012).In line with the poor association reported in our study, the acromiohumeral distance only shows a small association with shoulder pain-function in people with chronic shoulder pain (Navarro-ledesma et al, 2017).…”

Immediate effects of kinesiotaping on acromiohumeral distance and shoulder proprioception in individuals with symptomatic rotator cuff tendinopathy

“…Notwithstanding, our results should be interpreted with caution as the effects of kinesiotaping on symptoms and functional limitations were not investigated in this study. In addition, no significant correlation between the AHD and shoulder functional limitations in individuals with RCTe have been reported (Navarro-Ledesma et al, 2017). Therefore, our data do not allow us to state whether this increase is sufficient to provide clinically meaningful changes in symptoms and functional limitations caused by RCTe.…”

No relationship between the acromiohumeral distance and pain in adults with subacromial pain syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Another common reason for exclusion was that the participants were not diagnosed with SAPS. Fifteen studies met the inclusion criteria; nine of the 15 addressed the first aim 21,29,31,32,[52][53][54][55][56] , three addressed the second aim 54,57,58 and six addressed the final aim 29,32,[59][60][61][62] . Of the nine studies that addressed the first aim, one also addressed the second aim 54 and two addressed the third aim 29,32 .…”