We carry out an study on a group of 13 patients undergoing shoulder arthroplasty (n=13 people; of which 12 were unilateral prosthesis, one bilateral) using ultrasound and linking up the data provided by the rating score of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and other variables. It is suggested that ultrasound could provide clinically significant data, about surrounding prosthesis soft tissues, which could influence the rehabilitation treatment and/or provide better defined forecasts for the patient. Furthermore, ultrasound artifacts and tissues features are shown for...

•The functional shoulder´s solution has been observed heterogeneous in the overall patients with shoulder prosthesis. It has result in numerous studies to assess the success of the arthroplasty. •As for the major evaluation studies based on Scores on patients with shoulder arthroplasty, included the solution to pain and subjective patient satisfaction, but also with poor results in terms of functionality and strength. •It is also well documented that the functional development of the force factor, in patients with arthroplasty or hemiarthroplasty, is defined by the...

Procedure details: •The type of study was descriptive correlational, cross-sectional level II. •Among the independent variables listed in the research project, it has been taken: age, gender, previous disease, type of arthroplasty, prosthesis used and time/type of rehabilitation. •As dependent variable, we study the functional status of the shoulder after arthroplasty and rehabilitation. •As quantitative variables have been considered: the number of cases evaluated, number of shoulders with muscle atrophy in deltoid, shoulder number with/without rotator cuff maintained and/or repaired •For qualitative variables, we have...

•ULTRASOUND HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AS A RELIABLE METHOD FOR THE MUSCULOTENDINOUS EVALUATION OF PATIENTS WITH SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY •ALSO HAVE BEEN SHOWN THAT IT´S POSSIBLE A RELIABLE ASSESSMENT OF THE DELTOID MUSCLE ATROPHY AND CORRELATED WITH DATA OBTAINED WITH ORTHOPEDIC SCORES AS THE UCLA RATING SCORE, PROVIDING DATA THAT COULD HAVE CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS AND ESTABLISH FUNCTIONAL EVOLUTION FORECASTS.

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