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Patients with high preoperative mental, low physical function scores benefited from shoulder surgery
Patients who underwent total or reverse shoulder arthroplasty experienced significant benefits if they had higher preoperative mental health scores and lower physical function and pain scores, according to results.
Researchers collected preoperative and 1-year postoperative SF-12 physical component summary and mental component summary scores and American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) pain and function scores from 107 patients who underwent total or reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
Investigators found threshold values below which patients were more likely to achieve a minimum clinically important difference were 12 for ASES function and 25 for ASES pain. The values were 46 for SF-12 physical component summary scores and 42 for SF-12 mental component summary scores. According to multivariate analysis, achieving the minimum clinically important difference postoperatively was predicted by preoperative ASES function and ASES pain. Researchers found a higher likelihood of achieving a minimum clinically important difference for each measure among patients with higher preoperative SF-12 mental component summary scores. – by Casey Tingle
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