Table 5 Associations between the echogenicity of the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, deltoid and biceps brachii muscle of the painful shoulders (expressed in z-scores) and clinical variables in patients without diabetes mellitus suffering from shoulder pain (n = 23)
Clinical variables | Muscles | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Supraspinatus | Infraspinatus | Deltoid | Biceps brachii | ||||||||
| Â | B | 95% CI | P-value | B | 95% CI | P-value | B | 95% CI | P-value | B | 95% C | P-value |
DSP | −0.8 | −2.0, 0.3 | 0.148 | − 0.7 | − 2.0, 0.5 | 0.220 | − 0.7 | −3.0, 1.6 | 0.539 | 0.5 | −1.2, 2.3 | 0.519 |
Signs of shoulder neuropathy | 1.0 | −0.2, 2.2 | 0.090 | −0.4 | −2.0, 1.2 | 0.599 | −0.2 | −3.2, 2.8 | 0.892 | −1.1 | −3.4, 1.1 | 0.302 |
Signs of cervical radiculopathy | 0.01 | −1.3, 1.3 | 0.978 | 0.2 | −1.5, 2.0 | 0.768 | 0.04 | −3.2, 3.3 | 0.978 | 0.7 | −1.8, 3.1 | 0.571 |
Duration of pain | 0.01 | −0.01, 0.02 | 0.367 | 0.01 | −0.01, 0.03 | 0.225 | 0.01 | −0.02, 0.05 | 0.434 | −0.01 | −0.04, 0.01 | 0.408 |