A Study on Prevalence of Adhesive Capsulitis in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

Frozen shoulder is a self-recovering state of condition. Subjects are generally presented with an idiopathic progressive painful restriction in range of motion of the glenohumeral joint. AC is commonly found to be present in men and women of age 40 years and above. It can have a distinct variable time period of around 2 to 4 years conditions to which if the treatment is not administered, apart from this it may also hamper the quality of life of the patients. There is a lot of variation in the reports of the accumulation of the most commonly occurring musculoskeletal disorder in diabetic patients, that is suspected to be AC or frozen shoulder syndrome (FSS). So, there is a need to understand the exact prevalence of AC in diabetic patients in the population of Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. The survey based method was conducted in the diabetic population of Moradabad. The responses of the subjects were collected and the data was interpreted. The prevalence was attained from the data obtained and by applying the formula of prevalence which refers to the number of affected individuals in a population with respect to the total number of individuals in a given population.