INDROME DE HOMBRO DOLOROSO: CARACTERÍSTICAS Y CAUSAS, CONSULTA EXTERNA TRAUMATOLOGÍA, HOSPITAL IESS, PORTOVIEJO, NOVIEMBRE 2005 A ABRIL 2006

Abstract

The processes that they affect properly to the shoulder are very numerous and provoke painful pictures called as a whole painful shoulder, periarthritis humeral escápulo or syndrome subacromial that generic denominations, since many times it is difficult to determine the cause of the problem although at times can take place to a specific diagnosis are . The more frequent cause is the affection of soft parts such like tendons, arthicular capsule and synovial bags. One becomes of the more frequent counseling causes in familiar medicine and rehabilitation. The fact that affects the 25% of the population sometime of his life calculates itself. The increase of frequency of consultations for this cause of late years has motivated our interest in digging into the study and solution of the problem. Our work is headed for determining the prevalence as well as the leading cause, human affected group, the relation with the labor activity and evaluating diagnostic method and therapeutic handling used with bigger frequency. It is a descriptive prospective study accomplished level of all of the patients that help at the service of external consultation of traumatology of the hospital IESS Portoviejo with diagnosis of Painful shoulder Syndrome during the period November 2005 - April 2006. The prevalence comes from the 3 % with predominance of the female sex, overcoat in who they surpass fifty years; principal cause is the tenocapsulitis presenting excellent answer to the treatment non inflamatory and coadjutant with the physical therapy to avoid aftereffects like functional irreversible limitation of movements and the resulting interference with the labor performance.