Effect of specific exercise strategy on need for surgery in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome: Randomised controlled study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 344, Issue 7846, 2012, Pages

  Holmgren, Theresa ^a   Hallgren, Hanna Björnsson ^b   Öberg, Birgitta ^a   Adolfsson, Lars ^b   Johansson, Kajsa ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTHROSCOPIC SUBACROMIAL DECOMPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONSTANT MURLEY SHOULDER ASSESSMENT SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCLE TRAINING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROTATOR CUFF; SCAPULA; SCORING SYSTEM; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SHOULDER PAIN; SHOULDER SURGERY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SWEDEN; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MIDDLE AGED;

EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SHOULDER IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84857809783     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e787     Document Type: Article

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