Extracorporeal shock wave therapy without local anesthesia for chronic lateral epicondylitis.

Background: The use of extracorporeal shock wave therapy for the treatment of lateral epicondylitis is controversial. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of extracorporeal shock wave therapy without local anesthesia to treat chronic lateral epicondylitis.

Methods: One hundred and fourteen patients with a minimum six-month history of lateral epicondylitis that was unresponsive to conventional therapy were randomized into double-blind active treatment and placebo groups.

Comparison of shoulder stabilization using arthroscopic transglenoid sutures versus open capsulolabral repairs: a 5-year minimum follow-up.

Background: Few long-term studies have compared the efficacy of shoulder stabilization using arthroscopic or open procedures.

Purpose: To directly compare the outcomes of shoulder stabilization using arthroscopic transglenoid sutures versus open capsulolabral repairs.

Study Design: Uncontrolled retrospective review.

Sudden cardiac death: ethical considerations in the return to play.

The team physician-athlete relationship prompts many basic questions in medical ethics. Return-to-play decisions form many of the core responsibilities facing team physicians, and occasionally these decisions can have overriding ethical dilemmas. Therefore, a structured ethical decision-making process is a valuable skill for every successful sports medicine physician.

Posterosuperior glenoid rim impingement as a cause of shoulder pain in top level waterpolo players.

Objective: To further define the impingement occurring between the undersurface of the rotator cuff and the posterosuperior glenoid rim as a cause of shoulder pain in waterpolo athletes.

Experimental Design: A prospective design was used in the last three years.

Setting: Data were collected in Science Sports Institute of Rome.

Arthroscopic transglenoid suture capsulolabral repair. Five-year followup.

The preliminary results of our arthroscopic transglenoid suture capsulolabral repair demonstrated a failure rate of only 10%, with no postoperative dislocations. The purpose of this study was to reevaluate a patient population with a 5-year minimum followup similar to the one previously reported with a 2-year followup. We performed a retrospective analysis of 38 shoulders in 37 consecutive patients who underwent arthroscopic transglenoid suture capsulolabral repair between January 1989 and June 1990.