Interventions for shoulder pain
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Surgery = no surgery for patients with subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW)- Radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy = sham therapy for subacromial shoulder pain
- Musculoskeletal surgery for nontraumatic pain: not a great analgesic
- Only some musculoskeletal conditions benefit from surgery
- Surgery provides no additional benefit for shoulder impingement syndrome (FIMPACT)
- Decompression surgery no more effective than exercise for shoulder impingement syndrome
- Poor-quality evidence for steroid injection in pts with frozen shoulder
- Additional testing of limited benefit in patients with new-onset chest pain
- Nontraumatic supraspinatus tears: PT = PT + surgery at 1 year