Shoulder impairments and their association with symptomatic rotator cuff disease in breast cancer survivors

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 481-487

  Ebaugh, David ^a   Spinelli, Bryan ^a   Schmitz, Kathryn H ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ACROMION; ADDUCTION; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIBROSIS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMERUS HEAD; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE LENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL STRESS; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PECTORALIS MINOR MUSCLE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURY; RANGE OF MOTION; RHOMBOID MUSCLE; RISK FACTOR; ROTATOR CUFF INJURY; SCAPULOTHORACIC MOTION; SCAR FORMATION; SERRATUS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER PAIN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SUPRASPINATUS MUSCLE TENDON; TENDON; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SURVIVORS;

EID: 80052632041     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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