Prevalencia de alteraciones musculoesqueléticas de la articulación del hombro, en pacientes que asisten al centro de rehabilitación Jorge Andrade. 2020 a 2022.

Abstract

Shoulder pathologies are treated differently depending on their complexity, depending on several factors: duration of symptoms, predominance of the shoulder, type of tear, patient characteristics. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of the most frequent musculoskeletal disorders in the shoulder joint, associated with sociodemographic characteristics and risk factors in patients attending the Jorge Andrade rehabilitation center from 2020 to October 2022. METHODOLOGY: The research was presented as a project of descriptive scope, it aims to describe the relationship between musculoskeletal injuries and risk factors in shoulder injuries in patients attending the Jorge Andrade rehabilitation center, with a non-experimental, cross-sectional design. Likewise, it is a scientific study with a quantitative, documentary approach and deductive reasoning. RESULTS: It is shown that the most frequent musculoskeletal injuries found in shoulder injuries are adhesive capsulitis, which represents a percentage of 32% in 33 patients. Likewise, the causes determine that the most frequent cause of shoulder injury are repetitive movements with 25% in both sexes. CONCLUSION: Based on the study carried out, it was possible to determine that in the ages between 57 and 66 years they tend to suffer shoulder injuries, being this the older, the higher the prevalence of work disability.