Prevalence of Frozen Shoulder: A Cross-Cut Survey

Abstract

This descriptive type of cross sectional study was conducted to find out pattern of frozen shoulder patients attending to different services in selected hospitals of Dhaka city with a sample size of 100. Non randomized purposive sampling was done. Pretested structured questionnaire was used to get data and verbal consent was taken prior interview. All the data were entered and analyzed by using statistical packages for social science (SPSS) software version 16.0. Mean age of the respondents were 50.66 + 13.406 year. Among the respondents 52% were female and 48% were male. Result found that most of the respondents (93%) had done investigation and rest of them (7%) did not. Besides 47% of respondents were suffering from left frozen shoulder followed by 45% were right and 8% were both respectively. Result also revealed that majority of the respondents (60%) had movement restriction & muscle spasms and 40% were no muscle spasm. Half of the respondents (52%) were in stage 2 followed by 35% stage 1 and 13% stage 3 respectively. Half of the respondents (49%) had diabetic mellitus and rests of them 51% were absent. All of the respondents received different type of medications, 18% intra-articular steroids and 63% were taken different type of physiotherapy. Of the respondents 98% feel better after treatment and rest of them did not. Study found that advanced age and females were more sufferers in different stage of frozen shoulder. Limitation of movement and muscle spasm were more prominent complain. Physiotherapy treatment should be available.