Effects of Intra-articular Versus Subacromial Steroid Injections on Clinical Outcomes in Adhesive Capsulitis

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 2010-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The primary objective is to compare the clinical outcomes of patients with a clinical diagnosis of Adhesive Capsulitis who receive intra-articular versus subacromial steroid injections.

The secondary objective is to verify that steroid injections in combination with physical therapy lead to more favorable outcomes than local anesthetic injections in combination with physical therapy.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Lidocaine; Triamcinolone; Triamcinolone Acetonide; Triamcinolone diacetate; Triamcinolone hexacetonide

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Meet clinical diagnosis of primary Adhesive Capsulitis

• Restriction in abduction to less than 130 degrees

• 50% reduction in external rotation as compared with the contralateral side

• An intact rotator cuff

• Between 18-75 years of age

Exclusion Criteria:

• Previous shoulder capsular surgery

• History of steroid injection(s) into affected shoulder

• Inability to provide informed consent

• Iodinated contrast dye allergy

• Allergy to lidocaine

• Other suspected shoulder pathology (i.e., tumor, rotator cuff rupture. infection, arthritis)

• Known bleeding diathesis

• Cervical spine pathology

• History of trauma to the shoulder

• Pregnancy