Management of acromioclavicular joint disease by manual therapy versus corticosteroid injections: the protocol of a non-inferiority study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Degenerative acromioclavicular joint pain accounts for about 4% of shoulder pain. Various medical and non-medical treatment strategies are available for acromioclavicular joint disease but it is difficult to conduct a comparative evaluation of these treatments. The few studies dealing with the medical management of the disease have conducted no comparative assessment of drug therapies, physiotherapy, joint manipulation and corticosteroid injections. The primary goal of this study is to determine whether manual therapy is not inferior to ultrasound-guided injection of a corticosteroid preparation to decrease acromiocalvicular joint pain at 3 months.

Methods and analysis

The acromioclavicular arthropathy managed by manual therapy is a monocentric, comparative, ran

SUBMITTER: Michaut A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733203 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature