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

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate if a specific exercise strategy, targeting the rotator cuff and scapula stabilisers, improves shoulder function and pain more than unspecific exercises in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome, thereby decreasing the need for arthroscopic subacromial decompression.

Design

Randomised, participant and single assessor blinded, controlled study.

Setting

Department of orthopaedics in a Swedish university hospital.

Participants

102 patients with long standing (over six months) persistent subacromial impingement syndrome in whom earlier conservative treatment had failed, recruited through orthopaedic specialists.

Interventions

The specific exercise strategy consisted of strengthening eccentric exercises for the rotator cuff and co

SUBMITTER: Holmgren T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3282676 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature