Shoulder Pain: Current Surgical Trends and Criteria, and Exploration of Psychological and Other Factors Associated with Outcome After Surgery

This thesis found increasing trends and costs for shoulder surgery in Western Australia over the past decade, and a lack of consensus amongst surgeons regarding surgical criteria. For individuals undergoing shoulder surgery, poor psychological function was associated with higher levels of pain and d...

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Main Author: Thorpe, Alison May
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70726
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description This thesis found increasing trends and costs for shoulder surgery in Western Australia over the past decade, and a lack of consensus amongst surgeons regarding surgical criteria. For individuals undergoing shoulder surgery, poor psychological function was associated with higher levels of pain and disability before and after surgery, and similarly associated with different patient-centred outcome measures. A biopsychosocial approach to the screening, examination and management of people with shoulder pain is recommended.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-707262023-02-02T03:33:18Z Shoulder Pain: Current Surgical Trends and Criteria, and Exploration of Psychological and Other Factors Associated with Outcome After Surgery Thorpe, Alison May This thesis found increasing trends and costs for shoulder surgery in Western Australia over the past decade, and a lack of consensus amongst surgeons regarding surgical criteria. For individuals undergoing shoulder surgery, poor psychological function was associated with higher levels of pain and disability before and after surgery, and similarly associated with different patient-centred outcome measures. A biopsychosocial approach to the screening, examination and management of people with shoulder pain is recommended. 2018 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70726 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Thorpe, Alison May
Shoulder Pain: Current Surgical Trends and Criteria, and Exploration of Psychological and Other Factors Associated with Outcome After Surgery
title Shoulder Pain: Current Surgical Trends and Criteria, and Exploration of Psychological and Other Factors Associated with Outcome After Surgery
title_full Shoulder Pain: Current Surgical Trends and Criteria, and Exploration of Psychological and Other Factors Associated with Outcome After Surgery
title_fullStr Shoulder Pain: Current Surgical Trends and Criteria, and Exploration of Psychological and Other Factors Associated with Outcome After Surgery
title_full_unstemmed Shoulder Pain: Current Surgical Trends and Criteria, and Exploration of Psychological and Other Factors Associated with Outcome After Surgery
title_short Shoulder Pain: Current Surgical Trends and Criteria, and Exploration of Psychological and Other Factors Associated with Outcome After Surgery
title_sort shoulder pain: current surgical trends and criteria, and exploration of psychological and other factors associated with outcome after surgery
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/70726