Study the Impact of Physical Efforts on the Shoulder Tendons for the People with Different Jobs Using Ultrasounography

Abstract

This was cross section study carried out in ultrasound department of Sudan university of science and technology (SUST) and kosti hospital , during the period from September 2018 to November 2018.MSKUS is consider as cost effective diadnostic modality to screen rotator cuff tears. Increase the thickness of rotator cuff tendons may indicate pathology ,there for the cut of point normal thickness should be known the question to be answer :can ultrasound be able to identify the normal thickness of shoulder tendons. The aim of this thesis was to study the impact of physical effort on shoulder tendons for people with different jobs using ultrasonography. The data was collected from 50 subjects 33 male, 17 female with known age ,job, dominant hand also the thickness of RT SST , RT LHB and RT SCT and LT SST, LT LHB and LT SCT the data were analyzed using SPSS program .The results showed that there was no statistical correlation between SST ,LHB and SCT and age but there was increase in thickness of LHB and SST by 0.007mm and increase in thickness of SCT by 0.006 mm .also there in no significant correlation between LHB ,SCT , SST and dominant and non dominant hand p values was (0.53 ,0.51 and 0.91 respectively ) also no significant correlation with gender p values was (0.20 ,0.56, 0.55 respectively ) , also was no significant correlation with job p values >0.05 . This study defind the normal thickness values of supraspinatois, long head of biceps and subscapularis tendons.