Shoulder-Pacemaker Treatment Concept for Posterior Positional Functional Shoulder Instability: A Prospective Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pathological muscle activation patterns of the external rotators and periscapular muscles can result in posterior positional functional shoulder instability (PP-FSI). In several patients, physical therapy and surgical treatment are not successful.

Purpose

The shoulder-pacemaker treatment concept was evaluated prospectively in patients with PP-FSI and previously failed conventional therapy attempt.

Study design

Case series; Level of evidence, 4.

Methods

A negative selection of 24 consecutive cases of noncontrollable PP-FSI in 16 patients with previously failed conventional therapy were included in this prospective study. The shoulder-pacemaker treatment consisted of an electrical muscle stimulation-based therapy protocol with 9 to 18 one-hour treatmen

SUBMITTER: Moroder P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7364790 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature