Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L01376:reg:7
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Provision Reference: reg 7
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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder and death from adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder.
Meaning of adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder means a clinical condition characterised by shoulder pain and stiffness and severe functional restriction of both active and passive shoulder motion, lasting for at least 28 days.
Note 1: Adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder is also known as frozen shoulder.
            Note 2: Typically, the initial phase of this condition is characterised by severe pain followed by gradually increasing stiffness.
(3)          While adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder attracts ICD‑10‑AM code M75.0, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.