Measures of Adult Shoulder Function

Purpose.The SPADI is a patient-reported outcome measure of shoulder pain and function.The original version was published in 1991 and developed as a joint-specific measure for any disorders of the shoulder joint for use in an outpatient setting (5).It was developed by a panel of rheumatologists and a physical therapist.It initially comprised 20 items that the panel considered to be measures of shoulder pain and function; seven items were subsequently removed because of inadequate test-retest reliability or poor correlation with shoulder range of motion (ROM), resulting in a 13-item scale. Content or domains.The SPADI comprises two subscales: pain and disability. Number of items.It consists of 13 items in total, including five items in the pain subscale and eight items in the disability subscale.Response options/scale.All items were originally rated using a visual analog scale (VAS) (5).More recent versions have most commonly used an 11-point (0-10) numerical rating scale (NRS) (6).The anchors for each of the pain items are 0 = no pain and 10 = worst pain imaginable, and the anchors for the