2024 Volume 4 Pages 21-27
Purpose: Factors influencing the improvement of nocturnal pain in patients undergoing conservative treatment for rotator cuff tears of the shoulder were investigated.
Methods: Fifty patients with conservatively treated rotator cuff tears were included in the study. Patient information at the initial visit, plain radiographs, and shoulder range of motion at the start of physical therapy and 3 months after the start of physical therapy were examined. The dependent variable was the presence of nocturnal pain 3 months after the start of physical therapy; covariates were age, sex, disease duration, tear size, and presence of subacromial bursitis; and independent variables were plain radiographs at the initial visit and shoulder range of motion at the start of physical therapy and 3 months later. Factors associated with improvement in nocturnal pain were examined using multiple logistic regression analysis.
Results: External rotation range of motion of the shoulder was selected as a factor associated with improvement in nocturnal pain three months after starting physical therapy.
Conclusion: In patients receiving conservative treatment for rotator cuff tears, improvement in nocturnal pain three months after starting physical therapy was associated with shoulder external rotation range of motion.
