Table 3

Labral tear demographics, clinical features and baseline outcome scores

	Operative (n=28)			Non-operative (n=24)
	Mean (n)	SD (%)	95% CI	Mean (n)	SD (%)	95% CI	p Value
Age*	57.89	9.27	54.30 to 61.49	59.33	11.74	54.38 to 64.29	0.6232
Gender†							0.3303
Male	21	75.00		15	53.57
Female	7	25.00		9	46.43
Body mass index*	27.24	5.46	25.12 to 29.36	27.80	6.32	25.13 to 30.47	0.7310
Cause of injury†							0.6250
Known	21	75.00		18	64.29
Unknown	7	25.00		6	35.71
Side of injury†							0.5479
Right	14	50.00		14	58.33
Left	14	50.00		10	41.67
Symptom duration†							0.6856
<1 year	9	32.14		9	37.50
>1 year	19	67.86		15	62.50
Diabetes†							0.1103
Yes	1	3.57		4	14.29
No	27	96.43		20	85.71
Smoking†							0.8408
Yes	3	10.71		3	10.71
No	25	89.29		25	89.29
Pain VAS*	57.36	27.71	45.92 to 68.80	40.58	27.29	29.06 to 52.11	0.0381
Baseline PCS*	36.83	7.89	33.03 to 40.64	37.90	10.45	32.70 to 43.10	0.7271
Baseline MCS‡	48.57	11.85	42.86 to 54.29	51.38	10.01	46.41 to 56.36	0.5136
Baseline ASES*	51.27	22.33	42.25 to 60.29	63.90	20.37	54.63 to 73.18	0.0510
Baseline WORC*	1209.60	444.80	1033.70 to 1385.60	1042.90	476.80	831.50 to 1254.30	0.2126
SAT‡	79.45	26.12	67.87 to 91.04	62.81	38.03	45.50 to 80.12	0.2431
SANE‡	27.94	22.10	19.01 to 36.87	39.50	24.71	29.07 to 49.93	0.0754
SAL*	11.21	8.60	8.61 to 13.81	9.76	4.51	7.45 to 12.08	0.3925

*p values calculated using t-tests.
†p values calculated using χ² tests.
‡p values calculated using Wilcoxon signed-rank tests.
Continuous data presented as mean, SD. Categorical data presented as n (%).
ASES, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons; MCS, mental component summary; PCS, physical component summary; SAL, Shoulder Activity Level; SANE, Single Assessment Numeric Evaluation; SAT, Scapular Assistance Test; VAS, Visual Analogue Scale; WORC, Western Ontario Rotator Cuff Index.