Short course prednisolone for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder or stiff painful shoulder): A randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1460-1469

  Buchbinder, R ^a,b   Hoving, J L ^b   Green, S ^c   Hall, S ^b   Forbes, A ^b   Nash, P ^d  

^a CABRINI INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Rheumatology Research Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISABILITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DIZZINESS; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FLUSHING; FROZEN SHOULDER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPERTENSION; INDIGESTION; IRRITABILITY; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; NAUSEA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH DISTENSION; STRESS FRACTURE; TASTE DISORDER; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BURSITIS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PREDNISOLONE; SHOULDER JOINT; SHOULDER PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7244250063     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2003.018218     Document Type: Article

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