Muscle structure and function in older adults with a rotator cuff tear
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Item Files
Item Details
- abstract
- Rotator cuff tears are a highly prevalent musculoskeletal injury affecting 20-50% of older adults, and prevalence increases with more advanced age. Symptoms of a rotator cuff tear include muscle atrophy, fatty infiltration, decreased strength, and a loss of functional ability. However, a healthy aging process is also associated with atrophy, reduced strength, and declines in physical function. The goals of this dissertation were to understand how muscle volume and strength are affected with healthy aging, and how the symptoms of a rotator cuff tear may further compound age-associated changes to muscle morphology, strength, and function.
- subject
- activities of daily living
- aging
- musculoskeletal
- rotator cuff tear
- upper limb
- contributor
- Saul, Katherine R (committee chair)
- Smith, Thomas L (committee member)
- Marsh, Anthony P (committee member)
- Madigan, Michael L (committee member)
- Sparks, Jessica L (committee member)
- date
- 2014-07-10T08:35:26Z (accessioned)
- 2015-07-10T08:30:11Z (available)
- 2014 (issued)
- degree
- Biomedical Engineering (discipline)
- embargo
- 2015-07-10 (terms)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/39257 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- Muscle structure and function in older adults with a rotator cuff tear
- type
- Dissertation