Home training, local corticosteroid injection, or radial shock wave therapy for greater trochanter pain syndrome

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1981-1990

  Rompe, Jan D ^a   Segal, Neil A ^b   Cacchio, Angelo ^c   Furia, John P ^d   Morral, Antonio ^e   Maffulli, Nicola ^f  

^a orthoTrauma Evaluations Centrum   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c SAN SALVATORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d Sun Orthopaedics Group   (United States)

^e EUIFN Blanquerna   (Spain)

^f QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid injection; Greater trochanter pain syndrome (GTPS); Shock wave therapy; Stretching; Trochanteric bursitis; Trochanteric pain

Indexed keywords

MEPIVACAINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BONE PAIN; BONE SWELLING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREATER TROCHANTER; GREATER TROCHANTER PAIN SYNDROME; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INJECTION SITE SWELLING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOCAL THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL SHOCK WAVE THERAPY; RADIATING PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SKIN IRRITATION; TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ARTHRALGIA; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FEMUR; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70649112069     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: 15523365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546509334374     Document Type: Article

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