Healio

Subacromial injections misplaced about one-third of the time

A physician’s accuracy when injecting a local anesthetic to assess shoulder pain needs more definitive confirmation of accuracy than subjective judgment, according to researchers in the Netherlands.
Healio

Subacromial injections with vs without ultrasound guidance had similar clinical outcomes

A comparison of subacromial injections performed with vs. without ultrasound guidance showed no significant differences in clinical outcomes for treatment of subacromial impingement syndrome of the ...
Medscape

Subacromial Bursa Injections in Patients With Rotator Cuff Syndrome

Diagnostic and therapeutic subacromial injections, usually combining a local anesthetic and cortisone, remain a popular form of treatment for shoulder pain in orthopedic surgery and sports medicine ...
Medscape

Outcome Predictors in Nonoperative Management of Newly Diagnosed Subacromial Impingement Syndrome: A Longitudinal Study

Objective: This prospective investigation is designed to determine the prognostic factors associated with the response to conservative therapy of subacromial impingement syndrome. Materials and ...
Pulse

Joint injection techniques: Subacromial space

In the first of our series of videos demonstrating joint injection techniques, director of minor surgery Dr Soon Lim demonstrates how to administer an injection to the subacromial space in the ...
Science Daily

Lower dose of corticosteroids just as effective as higher for shoulder pain, study finds

Researchers report on the first comparative study of the two most commonly corticosteroid doses administered for shoulder pain. They found that lower doses were just as effective as higher doses in ...
Business Wire

FDA-Approved Randomized Controlled Feasibility Study Finds InGeneron's Regenerative Cell Therapy to Significantly Reduce Pain and Improve Shoulder Function Over Corticosteroid ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Results of a U.S. FDA-approved, randomized controlled feasibility study on treatment of symptomatic partial-thickness rotator cuff tears (sPTRCT) with fresh, uncultured, ...
Medical Dialogues

Arthroscopic Subacromial Decompression Shows No Long-Term Benefit in Subacromial Pain Syndrome: Study

Finland: Researchers have found in a randomized controlled trial that arthroscopic subacromial decompression (ASD) does not ...
BMJ

Evidence based journal watch

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Pulse

Injections for shoulder pain ‘have no long-term benefit’

Local steroid injections plus exercise are no more effective than exercise alone in the long term for patients with shoulder pain, a major new primary care-based study reveals. But injection plus ...
MedPage Today

Common Shoulder Procedure Found Worthless

Saline lavage, meant to loosen up calcified shoulder tendons, provided no benefit in a double-blind, sham-controlled trial, researchers said. Four months after treatment, Oxford Shoulder Score (OSS) ...