2017 Volume 32 Issue 5 Pages 603-607
[Purpose] To examine the inter-rater reliability of ultrasonography measurements of soft tissue thicknesses around the shoulder joints of young adults. [Subjects and Methods] Eleven healthy volunteers were recruited for this study, and 22 shoulder joints were analyzed. The thicknesses of the supraspinatus tendon (SST), subacromial bursa (SAB) and the biceps tendon (BT) were scanned using ultrasonography by two raters. [Results] The intra-class correlation coefficients were 0.92 for SST, 0.93 for SAB, and 0.89 for BT; no systematic errors were found for SST, SAB or BT, and the standard errors of measurement were 0.12, 0.03, and 0.12, respectively. [Conclusion] The results suggest that ultrasound measurements of soft tissue thicknesses around the shoulder joint by the method reported in this study are reliable.
