Gender effect on the scapular 3D posture and kinematic in healthy subjects

[en] Populations considered for shoulder analysis are often composed of various ratios of men and women. It is consequently hypothesized that gender has no significant effect on the joint kinematic. However the literature reports, for the shoulder, differences in the range of motion between genders. The specific influence of gender on the scapula-thoracic kinematics has not been studied yet. The dominant shoulder of two populations of men and women composed of 11 subjects each were evaluated in three dimensions for three distinct motions: flexion in the sagittal plane, abduction in the frontal plane and gleno-humeral internal/external rotation with the arm abducted at 90°. Posture, kinematics and range of motion were studied separately. For flexion and abduction and with regard to the scapular kinematic, external rotation were significantly larger for women than men. The differences were of at least 5° at 120° of humeral elevation. Upward rotations were identical. Women also showed larger average active humero-thoracic range of motion. The mean differences were of 13°, 7°, 12° and 5° for abduction, flexion, internal rotation and external rotation, respectively. No difference was observed between the scapular resting positions of both populations. The observed differences concerning both the scapular and humeral patterns would indicate that the shoulder behavior of men and women should not be expected to be similar.

Research center :

Laboratoire d'Analyse du Mouvement Humain (LAMH) - Université de Liège

Disciplines :

Human health sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

Schwartz, Cédric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Kinésithérapie générale et réadaptation

Croisier, Jean-Louis ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Kinésithérapie générale et réadaptation

Rigaux, Elise

Denoël, Vincent ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Analyse sous actions aléatoires en génie civil

Bruls, Olivier ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'aérospatiale et mécanique > Laboratoire des Systèmes Multicorps et Mécatroniques

Forthomme, Bénédicte ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de la motricité > Rééducation du membre supérieur

Language :

English

Title :

Gender effect on the scapular 3D posture and kinematic in healthy subjects

Publication date :

2016

Journal title :

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

ISSN :

1475-0961

eISSN :

1475-097X

Publisher :

Wiley, Oxford, United Kingdom

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