Background: The Simple Shoulder Test (SST) is a widely used patient-reported outcome measure for shoulder function. However, there is currently no version of the SST for the Thai population.
Purpose: To cross-culturally adapt and evaluate the reliability and validity of a Thai version of the SST (Thai SST) for patients with shoulder pathologies, using the Thai version of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) score as a comparison tool.
Shoulder instability, often associated with both soft tissue and bone lesions, can result in shoulder pain and dysfunction. To address this, the combined procedure of a Bankart repair in conjunction with humeral avulsion of the glenohumeral ligament (HAGL) repair aims to minimize failure rates in a single procedure. While HAGL repair is imperative for preventing recurrent instability, there remains a lack of consensus on the optimal surgical technique.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug such as oral diclofenac is normally used to relieve postoperative pain after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR), but most patients continue to have moderate-to-severe pain that disturbs their rehabilitation. Some orthopaedists prefer to use intravenous (IV) parecoxib for postoperative pain control.
Purpose: To compare the efficacy of IV parecoxib and oral diclofenac for postoperative pain control in ACLR.
Background: In anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, the clinical outcome and level of post-operative pain are important factors. To date there have been no studies evaluating differences in post-operative pain between single bundle and double bundle ACL reconstruction with a hamstring graft.
Hypothesis/purpose: We hypothesized that post-operative pain in single bundle ACL reconstruction would be less than in double bundle ACL reconstruction.