{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7"],"submitter":["Mohtadi NG"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>The shoulder is the most frequently dislocated joint in the body. Multiple causes and pathologies account for the various types of shoulder instability. Multi-directional instability (MDI) and multi-directional laxity with antero-inferior instability (MDL-AII) are similar in pathology, less common and more difficult to treat. These instabilities are caused by ligamentous capsular redundancy. When non-operative management fails for these patients, quality of life is significantly impaired and surgical treatment is required to tighten the ligaments and joint capsule. The current reference (gold) standard treatment for MDI/MDL-AII is an open inferior capsular shift (ICS) surgical procedure. An alternative treatment involves arthroscopic thermal shrinkage of redundant capsul"],"journal":["Trials"],"pagination":["4"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC1399448"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["A multi-centre randomized controlled trial comparing electrothermal arthroscopic capsulorrhaphy versus open inferior capsular shift for patients with shoulder instability: protocol implementation and interim performance: lessons learned from conducting a multi-centre RCT [ISRCTN68224911; NCT00251160]."],"pmcid":["PMC1399448"],"pubmed_authors":["Ceponis PJ","Fick GH","Mohtadi NG","Hollinshead RM","Chan DS"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"A multi-centre randomized controlled trial comparing electrothermal arthroscopic capsulorrhaphy versus open inferior capsular shift for patients with shoulder instability: protocol implementation and interim performance: lessons learned from conducting a multi-centre RCT [ISRCTN68224911; NCT00251160].","description":"<h4>Background</h4>The shoulder is the most frequently dislocated joint in the body. Multiple causes and pathologies account for the various types of shoulder instability. Multi-directional instability (MDI) and multi-directional laxity with antero-inferior instability (MDL-AII) are similar in pathology, less common and more difficult to treat. These instabilities are caused by ligamentous capsular redundancy. When non-operative management fails for these patients, quality of life is significantly impaired and surgical treatment is required to tighten the ligaments and joint capsule. The current reference (gold) standard treatment for MDI/MDL-AII is an open inferior capsular shift (ICS) surgical procedure. An alternative treatment involves arthroscopic thermal shrinkage of redundant capsul","dates":{"release":"2006-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2006 Feb","modification":"2025-04-04T23:14:18.076Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:26:05Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC1399448","cross_references":{"pubmed":["16542033"],"doi":["10.1186/1745-6215-7-4"]}}