Methods and results in the treatment of 2,580 painful shoulders

Harmon, Paul H.

doi:10.1016/0002-9610(58)90436-7

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“…This does not invalidate the conclusions, since a larger number of age inflicted tendinitis in the office clerk group can be expected, whereas the hypothesis is that welders have a higher prevalence of tendinitis (Harmon 1958) than do office clerks.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Diseases in the supraspinatus tendon thus dominate and they constitute approximately 75 per cent of the shoulder complaints in several investigations (Harmon 1958, Pasila 1965, Bateman 1978, Sahlstrand 1980. Less than 10 per cent are reported as biceps tenosynovitis (Harmon 1958, Pasila 1965) and isolated acromioclavicular arthrosis is also uncommon (Zanca 1971).…”

Section: Clinical and Pathologic Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Less than 10 per cent are reported as biceps tenosynovitis (Harmon 1958, Pasila 1965) and isolated acromioclavicular arthrosis is also uncommon (Zanca 1971).…”

Section: Clinical and Pathologic Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Conditions associated with limited range of motion are more rare and they constitute about 15 per cent of the cases with shoulder pain (Harmon 1958, Pasila 1965. Adhesive capsulitis or frozen shoulder account for the majority of these cases.…”

Section: Clinical and Pathologic Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Shoulder Pain in Industry: An Epidemiological Study on Welders

Herberts

Kadefors

Andersson

et al. 1981

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

127

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Clinical and Pathologic Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Less than 10 per cent are reported as biceps tenosynovitis (Harmon 1958, Pasila 1965) and isolated acromioclavicular arthrosis is also uncommon (Zanca 1971).…”

Section: Clinical and Pathologic Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Clinical and Pathologic Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Shoulder Pain in Industry: An Epidemiological Study on Welders

Herberts

Kadefors

Andersson

et al. 1981

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

127

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“…In most cases, clinical symptoms will resolve spontaneously in 7–10 days, whereas the deposit may persist on radiographs. In cases with prolonged symptoms, good results have been reported with needling [6, 11, 17, 23], open [13, 31, 40] or arthroscopic [1, 5, 12, 19] calcium excision.…”

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confidence: 99%

Arthroscopy surgery versus shock wave therapy for chronic calcifying tendinitis of the shoulder

Rebuzzi¹,

Coletti²,

Schiavetti³

et al. 2008

J Orthopaed Traumatol

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BackgroundThere are several treatment modalities for calcifying tendinitis of the shoulder. If the pain becomes chronic after several months of conservative treatment, open or arthroscopic removal is usually recommended. Recently, extracorporeal shock wave therapy has shown encouraging results in treating calcific deposits.Materials and methodsWe report a retrospective study to compare the outcome after arthroscopic extirpation (group I, 22 cases) with the effect of low extracorporeal shock wave therapy (group II, 24 cases) in patients with a chronic homogeneous calcific deposit in the supraspinatus tendon. Patients included in the study had undergone unsuccessful conservative therapy in the previous six months with no evidence of subacromial impingement of the rotator cuff independent of the calcium deposit or rupture of the rotator cuff detected by sonography or magnetic resonance imaging. AP and LL radiographies were performed for all of the patients at least one week before the treatment and 24 months after the treatment. To keep the possibility of spontaneous resorption low, the deposit had to be sharply outlined and densely structured on the radiograph (types I and II in the Gärtner classification). In group II, the patients underwent an average of three treatment sessions of extracorporeal shock waves therapy with 1,500 impulses/session of 0.10–0.13 mJ/mm2.ResultsPreoperative symptoms (P = 0.09), sex (P = 0.17), operated (P = 0.11) and dominant (P = 0.33) limbs, and age (P = 0.99) of the two groups did not show a significative difference between groups. According to the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) rating system, the mean score in group I improved from 9.36 (±5.2) to 30.3 (±7.62) points after 24 months, with 81.81% reporting good or excellent results (P < 0.001). In group II the mean score after 24 months rose from 12.38 (±6.5) to 28.13 (±9.34) points, with 70.83% reporting good or excellent results (P < 0.001). Radiologically, after two years of follow up, there was no calcific deposit in 86.35% (P < 0.001) of the patients of group I and in 58.33 % (P < 0.001) of the patients of group II. According to the UCLA scores, there was no significant difference between the groups at two years of follow-up (P = 0.38).Conclusions We conclude that shock wave therapy is equivalent to arthroscopy, and so shock wave therapy should be preferred because of its noninvasiveness.

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Roentgenographic Diagnosis of Shoulder Dysfunction

Kernwein¹

1965

JAMA

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Methods and results in the treatment of 2,580 painful shoulders

Cited by 99 publications

References 32 publications

Shoulder Pain in Industry: An Epidemiological Study on Welders

Shoulder Pain in Industry: An Epidemiological Study on Welders

Arthroscopy surgery versus shock wave therapy for chronic calcifying tendinitis of the shoulder

Roentgenographic Diagnosis of Shoulder Dysfunction

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