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Clinical Evaluation Of Patients With Shoulder Pain, Tien-Yow Chuang, Sheau-Ping Pan, Chiao Hsu, Tao-Chang Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The conscious perception of pain that is evoked by a noxious stimulus is a multidimensional process that involves both a subjective evaluation of the sensory aspects of the stimulus (intensity, duration, location) as well as an affective or emotional response to that stimulus.The purpose of this invesigation was to develop a simple, reproducible, systemic measurement to realize the relationship between subjective and objective evaluation. The protocal evaluation includes the following measurement of pain: (1) visual analogue pain scale (2) heat stimulation (3) TENS (4) pressure pain. Twenty-three subjects with shoulder pain due to rotator cuff tendonitis, rotator cuff partial tear …