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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2015 Oct 9;48(14):3853–3858. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.09.038

Table 2.

SWE values (mean ± SD) associated with shoulder abduction

30° 60° 90° P values
0°-30° 0°- 60° 0°- 90° 30°- 60° 30°- 90°
Intact (N = 18)
AD 50.5 ± 15.8 44.2 ± 14.1 36.9 ± 12.3 35.4 ± 11.4 < .001 < .001 .002 .003
AS 53.6 ± 12.7 45.4 ± 14.0 40.3 ± 12.6 38.3 ± 12.3 .012 < .001 < .001 .012
PD 47.1 ± 15.8 44.2 ± 17.7 38.6 ± 14.1 35.4 ± 12.3 < .001 < .001 .018
PS 48.9 ± 14.4 44.7 ± 13.5 40.5 ± 13.7 35.9 ± 10.7 < .001 < .001 .027 < .001
Small-medium Tear (N = 7)
AD 63.9 ± 6.5 50.6 ± 9.3 44.2 ± 7.9 40.8 ± 8.5 .043 .003
AS 64.3 ± 13.2 53.8 ± 13.6 47.0 ± 10.9 44.4 ± 9.1 .043 < .001 .011
PD 55.4 ± 13.4 50.3 ± 13.9 46.3 ± 12.5 40.6 ± 8.4 < .001 .011
PS 60.2 ± 15.8 54.3 ± 14.5 49.9 ± 15.1 41.9 ± 12.8 < .001 .011
Large-massive Tear (N = 5)
AD 53.1 ± 15.9 53.0 ± 18.0 50.0 ± 16.2 46.1 ± 18.7
AS 59.9 ± 18.1 59.5 ± 22.3 58.5 ± 21.5 53.8 ± 20.6
PD 55.3 ± 12.9 56.6 ± 17.7 52.8 ± 17.5 50.2 ± 15.4
PS 59.8 ± 15.6 56.4 ± 13.8 55.8 ± 14.0 49.2 ± 12.5

Comparison among shoulder abductions was analyzed using Friedman test.