RESEARCH - Hyaluronate injection relieves chronic shoulder pain

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From Reuters Health Information

Hyaluronate Injection Relieves Chronic Shoulder Pain: Meta-Analysis

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Apr 07 - For treatment of chronic painful

shoulder, hyaluronate injections are a safe and effective alternative

to other conservative methods, according to a meta-analysis by

Japanese physicians.

Injection of hyaluronate is one of the most common treatments for

chronic painful shoulder - but according to the research team, there

have been no systematic reviews of viscosupplementation, as the

procedure is known.

Dr. Seijo Saito and associates at Tokyo Women's Medical University

conducted a literature search that turned up 19 randomized trials

comparing intra-articular and subacromial hyaluronate injections with

placebo or other conservative measures.

Altogether, the trials involved 2120 patients, with diagnoses of

periarthritis scapulohumeralis, frozen shoulder, adhesive capsulitis,

rotator cuff tear, persistent shoulder pain, supraspinatus tendinosis,

and shoulder impingement syndrome.

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