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.

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 ...

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 ...

Participants receiving either US-guided or unguided (blind) subacromial injection will be advised not to drive immediately after receiving the injection and to observe a period of relative rest for ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Hanna C Björnsson Hallgren, Department of Orthopeadics and Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping SE-581 85, Sweden; ...