Prevalence of shoulder subluxation among the stroke patients attended at CRP

Abstract

Purpose: To identify the prevalence of shoulder subluxation among the stroke patients attended at CRP. Objectives: To find out the prevalence of shoulder subluxation among the stroke patients, to identify the male female ratio ,to identify the more affected age group, to find the occupation of patients with shoulder subluxation, to find out the past medical history among the patients with shoulder subluxation. Methodology: A quantitative cross-sectional study design was chosen to accomplish the objectives of the study. 35 subjects were selected through simple random sampling technique from the outpatient's neurology physiotherapy department of CRP. A structural questionnaire was developed through searching of literature. The participants were requested to answer according to the developed format of the question. The answers were entered into SPSS 16 software and analyzed as descriptive statistics. Results: The study showed that 62.85% (n=22) participants had shoulder subluxation among the stroke patients. Their mean age was 54±8.4. The most of the participants 31.82% (n=7) who had shoulder subluxation in between 53-60 years of age group among them most of the participants 27.27% (n=6) were service holder and 63.64% (n=14) were male. More than half of the participants 54.55% (n=12) came from urban area and 54.55% (n=12) participants had hemorrhagic stroke among stroke patients who had shoulder subluxation. 68.18% (n=15) had the history of hypertension, 31.82% (n=7) had diabetes mellitus, 77.27% (n=17) had no past history of physical exercises and 59.09% (n=13) had history of mal handling among the stroke patients with shoulder subluxation. Conclusion: The result of the study demonstrates that the prevalence of shoulder subluxation was 62.85% (n=22) and they had certain positive exposure including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, history of mal handling, no past history of physical exercise.