In many instances , no or minimal attempts to screen were undertaken or reported .
Background Subacromial shoulder pain is a common clinical presentation with much diagnostic uncertainty .
Some of this uncertainty relates to the involvement of the cervical spine as a source or contribution to subacromial shoulder pain .
Currently , there is no accepted method of screening of the cervical spine in the presence of subacromial shoulder pain , which risks patients receiving misguided and /or ineffective interventions .
Objective To evaluate approaches used to screen the cervical spine in patients with subacromial shoulder pain .
Local anaesthetic injection with and without corticosteroids for subacromial impingement syndrome
Abstract Fifty patients with impingement syndrome refractory to long-term conservative treatment were r and omized to three treatment groups . All patients received an injection of 10 ml 0.5 % bupivacaine , in group 1 without corticosteroid , in group 2 with crystalline corticosteroid and in group 3 with lipoid corticosteroid . Treatment in group 1 had to be stopped because of inefficacy . In groups 2 and 3 favorable results were achieved in 19 out of 40 patients .Résumé 50 patients avec conflit sous-aeromial , qui ne montraient pas d’amélioration après un long trâitement conservatif récevaient une injection dans la bourse subacromiale . Le premier groupe récevait une injection contenant un anaesthétique local pur , groupe 2 une mixture d’anaesthétique avec des corticostéroides cristalins et groupe 3 avec des corticostéroides lipoides . Le trâitement du groupe 1 devait être arrété cause d’inificacité . 19 de 40 patients du groupe 2 et 3 montraient une amélioration après 6 mois
In many instances , no or minimal attempts to screen were undertaken or reported .
Background Subacromial shoulder pain is a common clinical presentation with much diagnostic uncertainty .
Some of this uncertainty relates to the involvement of the cervical spine as a source or contribution to subacromial shoulder pain .
Currently , there is no accepted method of screening of the cervical spine in the presence of subacromial shoulder pain , which risks patients receiving misguided and /or ineffective interventions .
Objective To evaluate approaches used to screen the cervical spine in patients with subacromial shoulder pain .