SHOULDER KINEMATICS IN PATIENTS WITH FULL THICKNESS ROTATOR.pdf

SHOULDER KINEMATICS IN PATIENTS WITH FULL THICKNESS ROTATOR

CUFF TEARS FOLLOWING A SUBACROMIAL INJECTION

Jason Scott Scibek

A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment

of the requirements for the degree of

Doctor of Philosophy

(Kinesiology)

in The University of Michigan

2005

Doctoral Committee:

Associate Professor, Richard E. Hughes, Chair

Associate Professor, Susan Holly Curwin Brown

Associate Professor, James E. Carpenter

Lecturer, Kirsten T. Namesnik

Assistant Professor, Riann M. Palmieri

Jason Scott Scibek

2005

DEDICATION

To my family and friends for all their support

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My involvement in this project has certainly been a labor of love. However, it

may be more appropriate to describe this as having been labor surrounded by love and

support. Because of that there are so many people both in and outside of the University

that must be thanked for their assistance, guidance and support on this project and during

my time here. First, I must thank Richard Hughes for taking a chance on me by taking

me under his wing when things with my previous mentor went south, literally and

figuratively. Richard was kind enough to not only explain to me how life as a doctoral

student would continue but he also offered his services as a mentor and friend and saw

me through this academic mêlée, and for that I am grateful. To my committee members,

Jim Carpenter, Kirsten Namesnik, Riann Palmieri and Susan Brown, your guidance and

your willingness to assist me in this endeavor has been tremendous; I can not thank each

of you enough for your support. To the crew in the lab, Amy Mell, for your technical

assistance and computer programming, Joe Langenderfer and Tom Withrow, for your

endless advice and support, and Laurie Huston for always being that constant, thank you

all, as I could not have done this without you. Special thanks to Brian Downie and Dr.

Barry McDonough for all the injections, Drs. Bruce Miller, Jim Carpenter and

Waldomere Roeser for access to your patient loads, the secretarial staff for your

assistance in patient recruitment and tracking. To the folks in the clinic at MedSport your

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camaraderie helped to get me through more than you could have ever known and I am so

incredibly grateful to all of you.

I must thank the Great Lake Athletic Trainers Association for their financial

support on this project. I would like to thank the Division of Kinesiology for bringing me

into the University of Michigan four years ago and allowing me the opportunity to pursue

my doctoral degree here in Ann Arbor – it has certainly been an adventure. To the

Department of Orthopaedics, MedSport, and the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories,

thank you for graciously allowing me to pursue my research endeavors in your facilities

and allowing me to collaborate with your faculty - it has been a tremendous experience.

Now for the people who have truly been behind the scenes during my success. To

the University of Michigan Swimming and Diving Programs, your support during my

four years has been unending and you have been like a family to me, thank you all so

very much. To my friends here at the University of Michigan, I wish we could have

spent more time together, unfortunately my tumultuous time here did not always allow

for much more than an intramural game or a football Saturday. Thank you for your

understanding and friendship. To my friends and colleagues from Gettysburg College,

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Sacred Heart University, thank you

for your support, your words of encouragement and most importantly your friendship

over all of these years – it has meant more to me than words can ever describe.

To my family and loved ones, you all have very special places within my heart

and it is your support that has been there through it all, all the work, all the trials, all the

long phone calls and even the short ones. Yours has meant the most to me and is truly

immeasurable.

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