Publications by authors named "Thilo O Kromer"
Article Synopsis
- The research aims to identify predictive factors that influence long-term outcomes for patients with subacromial pain syndrome undergoing physiotherapy, addressing gaps in existing data.
- A comparison will be made between baseline differences in patients who achieve successful outcomes and those who do not, using two different sets of predictive variables.
- The study analyzed 87 patients and found that factors like higher expectations and short-term improvements were beneficial, while fear avoidance beliefs and greater baseline pain and disability levels negatively impacted long-term recovery.
Objectives: To investigate the effect of manual physiotherapy and exercises compared with exercises alone in patients with shoulder impingement syndrome one year after inclusion.
Design: Randomized controlled trial.
Subjects: Patients with shoulder impingement of more than 4 weeks.
Background: Little information exists about the role of fear-avoidance beliefs and catastrophizing in subacromial pain syndrome.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations among pain, catastrophizing, fear, and disability and the contribution of fear-avoidance beliefs to disability at baseline and at 3-month follow-up.
Design: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis was conducted.
Objective: To investigate the effect of individualized manual physiotherapy and exercises compared with individualized exercises alone in patients with shoulder impingement syndrome.
Design: Randomized controlled trial.
Subjects: Patients with shoulder impingement of more than 4 weeks' duration.
Background: Shoulder impingement syndrome is a common musculoskeletal complaint leading to significant reduction of health and disability. Physiotherapy is often the first choice of treatment although its effectiveness is still under debate. Systematic reviews in this field highlight the need for more high quality trials to investigate the effectiveness of physiotherapy interventions in patients with subacromial impingement syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To critically summarize the effectiveness of physio-therapy in patients presenting clinical signs of shoulder impingement syndrome.
Design: Systematic review.
Methods: Randomized controlled trials were searched electronically and manually from 1966 to December 2007.