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Filter by:Shoulder pain is a common musculoskeletal problem that increases disability and decreases quality of life in addition to socio-economic impact. Chronic pain is defined as pain lasting longer than three months. Chronic pain is a multidimensional and complex experience. According to this model, chronic pain is a multidimensional and complex experience. This experience may be accompanied by different pain beliefs, pain avoidance behaviours, pain-related fear of movement, anxiety and depression. Many conditions involving the shoulder complex including traumatic and non-traumatic pain, subacromial impingement, postoperative pain, rotator sheath tears, rotator sheath tendinopathy, shoulder arthritis, adhesive capsulitis, shoulder instabilities may lead to pain-related fear of movement. Until now, pain-related fear and avoidance behaviours in patients with shoulder pain have been evaluated with the Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale, Pain Avoidance Beliefs Scale and Fear of Pain Scale. However, only patients with low back pain were included in the development of these scales. There was no scale developed specifically for shoulder pain. To fill this gap in the literature, Ansanello et al. developed the "Avoidance Daily Activities Photo Scale for Patients With Shoulder Pain (ADAP)" scale to evaluate pain avoidance behaviours in individuals with shoulder pain. Cross-cultural adaptation, validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the ADAP scale has not been studied. The aim of our study was to perform cross-cultural adaptation, validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Avoidance of Daily Activities Photo Scale for Patients with Shoulder Pain (ADAP Shoulder Scale).
Physical fitness levels of people waiting for a planned operation are often measured using an exercise test. This is because fitness levels help doctors make a plan to improve each person's chances of a successful recovery after their planned operation. The exercise test requires skilled staff, expensive equipment, a 1 hour appointment, and the patient to exercise heavily during the test. Ventriject, a small to medium sized enterprise, have designed a device called Seismofit that estimates fitness levels of people from a measurement taken whilst laying down. It measures the vibrations of the chest wall caused by the beating heart and uses this information with additional information, such as height, weight and sex, to estimate fitness. The measurement takes around 5 minutes to perform, does not require heavy exercise, expensive equipment or skilled staff. The Seismofit device was shown to be accurate in young fairly fit people. It has not been tested in people who undergo an exercise test before an operation, who are less fit on average compared to the people that the device was originally tested on. It is likely that the calculations used to estimate fitness levels with the Seismofit device will need to be adjusted for people waiting for an operation. There are two parts to this study. The first part aims to estimate up to 50 people's fitness with the Seismofit device and use directly measured fitness from their standard exercise test before their operation to adjust the calculations for estimating fitness. The second part of this study aims to have a further 50 people undergo the Seismofit device measurement and compare the estimated fitness level with the results from the standard exercise test before an operation. This is to see if the Seismofit device is valid at estimating fitness in people awaiting surgery.