Ultrasound-Guided Glenohumeral Steroid Injection

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The investigators compared the results of the ultrasound-guided anterior and posterior approaches to administer glenohumeral steroid injections to patients with primary adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder joint by a single experienced provider.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital
• Treatments: Lidocaine; Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• shoulder pain and limitations of active and passive motion in at least two directions (abduction and forward flexion < 100, external rotation < 30, or internal rotation < L3) on the pre-injection check-up

• those who underwent MRI or ultrasonography with no secondary cause for adhesive capsulitis, such as a rotator cuff tear, calcific tendinitis, or osteoarthritis

Exclusion Criteria:

• history of fracture or operation on the affected shoulder

• loss to follow-up before 13 weeks after the injection

• receiving another treatment that was different from our protocol within 13 weeks after the injection

• no functional scores within 13 weeks after the injection