Background: Subacromial impingement (SAI) may be a cause of age-related rotator cuff abnormalities; therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare SAI characteristics between younger and older adults. In addition to the fact that thickened supraspinatus tendon (SST) indicates tendon abnormalities, SAI characteristics have been recognized as follows: greater SST thickness, reduced acromiohumeral distance (AHD), greater reduction of AHD (∆AHD) with arm elevation, and a higher percentage of SST within AHD (i.e., occupation ratio: OcAHD). Furthermore, we investigated the relationships between SST thickness and AHD, as well as SST thickness and ∆AHD to clarify the effect of SAI on rotator cuff abnormalities.
Methods: Healthy younger (n = 18, 21-24-year-old) and older (n = 27, 45-80-year-old) adults without any shoulder symptoms participated in this study. We measured their SST thickness and AHD at rest and at arm elevation (30° and 60°) in the scapular plane using ultrasound, and calculated ∆AHD as the relative change expressed as a percentage of the baseline. OcAHD was expressed as the ratio of SST thickness at rest to AHD at rest and in elevated positions.
Results: The older subjects had approximately one mm thicker SST (P = 0.003, 95% Confidence interval [CI] = 0.410 to 1.895) and approximately 1.0 to 1.3 mm greater AHD than the younger subjects (P = 0.011, 95%CI = 0.284 to 2.068 at rest; P = 0.037, 95%CI = 0.082 to 2.609 for 30° of arm elevation; P = 0.032, 95%CI = 0.120 to 2.458 for 60° of arm elevation). However, there were no differences in ΔAHD and OcAHD between the groups.
Conclusion: This study demonstrated that, compared with the younger subjects, the older subjects showed thicker supraspinatus tendon but no other SAI characteristics including decreases in AHD and increases in OcAHD. Thus, this study suggests that older subjects showed age-related SST abnormalities without SAI, although the magnitude of the differences in SST thickness is notably small and the clinical significance of this difference is unclear.
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