Demographic characteristics and care of rotator cuff syndrome in a second level hospital in Bogotá Características demográficas y de la atención del síndrome de manguito rotador en un hospital de segundo nivel en Bogotá

Abstract

Rotator Cuff Syndrome is considered one of the main shoulder pathologies, which occurs due to biomechanical aspects related to muscular imbalance, having a significant prevalence of occurrence in occupational and sports activities, as well as in some cases due to factors related to the process. of aging. To date, the greatest concentration of studies has been on the intervention and its results, but the demographic characteristics with which this entity occurs within the population have not been specified to look at the groups most affected by its triggering. With the purpose of identifying these characteristics in a Physiotherapy service, a cross-sectional study was developed based on the statistical care records of patients referred with this diagnosis to the Physiotherapy Service of the San Blas Hospital in the months of January to May of 2005.
found that in this period 13 patients were treated, of which 69.2% were female (n= 9 S.E. = 0.07). The mean age of the patients was 59 years with a standard deviation of +/-5 years (50 – 64 years of age). 100% of the patients received outpatient care. According to the data, it was concluded that Rotator Cuff Syndrome seems to be a more prevalent entity in the female gender, concentrating its presentation in
the fifth to sixth decade of life in which it can be related to the interaction of biomechanical imbalances, physiological changes of the aging process and occupational diseases due to overuse due to poor ergonomic characteristics of the work to trigger this condition.