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.

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 ...

CHICAGO — Patients who received ultrasound-guided subacromial injection experienced superior pain relief with no differences in function or activity level compared patients who were treated with ...

Correspondence to Dr Abdel-Rahman Aly, Health Pointe—Pain, Spine and Sports Medicine, Division Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Alberta, Suite # 710-11010 101 St NW, Edmonton, ...

Although the joint space is sometimes difficult to enter because ... Rotator cuff tendinitis and frozen shoulder Subacromial steroid injections are more effective in terms of symptom improvement ...

diagnosed by physical examination and a subacromial lidocaine injection test, with a standardized conservative protocol. We followed the patients for a period of 12 months. Outcome was evaluated ...

An experienced radiologist and a shoulder surgeon independently assessed the radiographs, examining for osteoarthritis in any joint, proximal humeral ... had received one or several subacromial ...