Abstract:
Purpose: To identify the prevalence of painful shoulder among the hemiplegic
patients with CVA. Objectives: To find out the prevalence of painful shoulder among
the hemiplegic Patients with CVA; to identify the socio-demographic information; to explore the patient's nature and behavior of pain and to clarify the socio-demographic
factors for such exposure group in relation to age, sex, occupation, living areas.
Methodology: The study design was cross-sectional. Total sixty two samples were
selected conveniently for this study from the selected area at neurology unit of CRP.
Data was collected by using mixed type of questionnaire. Descriptive statistic was
used for data analysis which focused through table, pie chart and bar chart.Results:
The finding of the study was that the 77.4% patients had shoulder pain. Most of them
had been suffered from intermittent pain 71% and males (n=36) 75% were more
affected than females.59.7% patients took treatment for their shoulder pain among
this only 12.9% took physiotherapy, 25.8% took medication and 21% took both
medication & physiotherapy.Conclusion: Shoulder pain after stroke is common,
especially in patients with severe sensory motor deficits, diabetics and those living at
home. Appropriate management may reduce the rate of occurrence. This result of this study also provided background information about shoulder pain that may be useful in
prevention and treatment of shoulder pain after CVA, thereby reducing its prevalence.
