OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of surgical treatment of the @entity5818 of the shoulder on the @entity410 for work. DESIGN: Retrospective. SETTING: Academic Hospital Groningen, department of Orthopaedics, the Netherlands. @entity1 AND METHODS: A group of 31 @entity1 who had undergone an anterior shoulder decompression between 1 January 1984 and 31 December 1993 because of shoulder symptoms due to impingement lasting more than one year, were subjected in January 1996 to a study of the effect of the treatment on the @entity158 , @entity410 for work and participation in the labour process. The results were measured using an objectivated score list for @entity158 and function and with a comparison of the labour situations before and after the operation as described by the @entity1 . RESULTS: End results as measured with the score list were fair to good in 97 @entity1 (74%). The numbers of those completely fit for work before operation and at follow-up were identical, viz. 45 out of 131 (34%). Thirty-four @entity1 (26%) had other jobs or adjusted activities and 37 (28%) were completely unfit for work (together 71 @entity1 : 54%); 15 @entity1 (11%) had stopped working for reasons of age. The probability to be definitely rejected for work after the operation was increased significantly by a job causing shoulder overstrain and by having been on sick leave with pay prior to the operation. CONCLUSION: Although the objective results were reasonably good, the percentage of those completely fit for work was not changed appreciably by the surgical treatment.

[Results of anterior shoulder decompression surgery according to Neer for XXXX ; little effect on @entity410 for work].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'PATIENTS'] @entity5818 :: ('MESH:D019534', 'Disease') :: ['impingement syndrome'] @entity410 :: ('MESH:D012640', 'Disease') :: ['fitness'] @entity158 :: ('MESH:D010146', 'Disease') :: ['pain']
@entity5818 :: (MESH:D019534,Disease) :: ['shoulder impingement syndrome']
