ArticleBMJ open2016
Ultrasound assessment for grading structural tendon changes in supraspinatus tendinopathy: an inter-rater reliability study.
Article in BMJ open, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01984203 (Progressive Heavy Strength Training Compared to General Low-load Exercises in Patients With Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers.
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Progressive Heavy Strength Training Compared to General Low-load Exercises in Patients With Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy: a Randomized Controlled Trial
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Strain Elastography and Tendon Response to an Exercise Program in Patients With Supraspinatus Tendinopathy: An Exploratory Study.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2020Article
- Discriminative and convergent validity of strain elastography for detecting tendinopathy within the supraspinatus tendon: a cross-sectional study.JSES international · 2020Article
- Staging achilles tendinopathy using ultrasound imaging: the development and investigation of a new ultrasound imaging criteria based on the continuum model of tendon pathology.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2020Article
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- Three Months of Progressive High-Load Versus Traditional Low-Load Strength Training Among Patients With Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy: Primary Results From the Double-Blind Randomized Controlled RoCTEx Trial.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2017Article
- The Correlation of Quantitative Ultrasound Measures and Supraspinatus Tendon Quality: A Pilot Study.Journal of medical ultrasoundArticle
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Abstract
aimTo evaluate the inter-rater reliability of measuring structural changes in the tendon of patients, clinically diagnosed with supraspinatus tendinopathy (cases) and healthy participants (controls), on ultrasound (US) images captured by standardised procedures.
methodsA total of 40 participants (24 patients) were included for assessing inter-rater reliability of measurements of fibrillar disruption, neovascularity, as well as the number and total length of calcifications and tendon thickness. Linear weighted κ, intraclass correlation (ICC), SEM, limits of agreement (LOA) and minimal detectable change (MDC) were used to evaluate reliability.
results'Moderate-almost perfect' κ was found for grading fibrillar disruption, neovascularity and number of calcifications (k 0.60-0.96). For total length of calcifications and tendon thickness, ICC was 'excellent' (0.85-0.90), with SEM(Agreement) ranging from 0.63 to 2.94 mm and MDC(group) ranging from 0.28 to 1.29 mm. In general, SEM, LOA and MDC showed larger variation for calcifications than for tendon thickness.
conclusionsInter-rater reliability was moderate to almost perfect when a standardised procedure was applied for measuring structural changes on captured US images and movie sequences of relevance for patients with supraspinatus tendinopathy. Future studies should test intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the method in vivo for use in clinical practice, in addition to validation against a gold standard, such as MRI. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT01984203; Pre-results.
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