Treatment of "frozen shoulder" with distension and glucorticoid compared with glucorticoid alone. A randomised controlled trial.

This study is a comparison of treatments of idiopathic "Frozen Shoulder" (adhesive capsulitis), distension combined with steroid is compared with steroid alone. Evaluation was based on pain scales, analgesic usage, and range of motion outcome scales. Out of one-hundred twenty patients (age, mean 51, range 21-70) that were referred under the diagnosis FS, twenty-six fulfilled the criteria for inclusion in the study, but four patients did not want to participate in the trial, giving a total of 22 patients (age, mean 53, range 40-65) in the study.

[The whiplash injury. An overlooked and casually treated syndrome].

The whiplash trauma is defined as hyperextension followed by hyperflexion of the cervical spine or the reverse. The lesion occurs mainly in the occupants of a motor vehicle into which another vehicle collides from behind. Even when there is no radiographic evidence of injury, considerable lesions of the soft tissues may, nevertheless, be present.