Table 4.

Clinical healing of the patients with isolated serratus palsy in subgroups

Subgroup	Number of patients	Clinically no palsy		Clinically partial or total palsy
		Number of patients	Percent	Number of patients	Percent
All	37	27	73	10	27
Male	22	16	73	6	27
Female	15	11	73	4	27
Age at the onset of symptoms
Younger than 35 years	19	14	74	5	26
Older than 35 years	18	13	72	5	28
No physiotherapy	26	19	73	7	27
Physiotherapy	11	8	73	3	27
Trauma in etiology	12	8	67	4	33
No trauma	25	19	76	6	24
Exertion in etiology	22	17	77	5	23
No exertion	15	10	67	5	33
Infectious	9	8	89	1	11
Noninfectious	28	19	68	9	32
Heaviness of work
Light	27	19	70	8	30
Hard	10	8	80	2	20