Welcome to 2020! After the typical excess of the Christmas and New Year period, it's time to knuckle down and start to exercise that thing in our skull that ...

Welcome back to the Shoulder Physio literature review. This month we are tackling the in vogue concept of symptom modification. We will delve into what it is...

Manual therapy... As I sit down to write this literature review, I admit, I have some trepidation. The topic of manual therapy (MT) in physical therapy, and ...

One of the first questions a person with shoulder pain will ask you (physical therapist) is, "HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO GET BETTER"? This is a perfectly reaso...

The holy grail of shoulder pain. Pain related to the rotator cuff will be evident in up to 80% of people who present with a painful shoulder. In many of thes...

The great debate: how does physiotherapy compare to surgery for full thickness tear of the rotator cuff? The shoulder physio July literature review will anal...

Frozen shoulder - Instalment 3 How do we treat it? Ok, so we now know how to identify (here) and diagnose (here) a frozen shoulder (FS), right? Once detected...

Okay so you made it through instalment 1? I will pretend that was a universal resounding yes! (if not, click here). The focus of this instalment will move aw...

Frozen shoulder. The enigma. Often referred to as the last remaining mystery in MSK medicine. I think this is overly dramatic. We actually know quite a lot a...

Intro The rotator cable was first described in detail by Burkhart et al 1993 in his landmark paper titled “The Rotator Crescent and Cable: An anatomic descri...

Shoulder Physio Literature Review #1 February 2019 Welcome to the inaugural Shoulder Physio literature review. I will release the reviews monthly and intend ...

This very recent study has demonstrated that some people with frozen shoulder actually have significantly more movement when under a general anaesthetic than...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23836479 A well conducted Randomised Controlled Trial published in 2013 investigated how supervised exercise (strengtheni...

For many years the clinical dogma in frozen shoulder has been no matter what you do, after 30 months your shoulder will be better. This has never sat comfort...

This is a quality study conducted in 2014 that showed supervised exercise by a physiotherapist in a cohort of people with frozen shoulder resulted in signifi...

This is a very interesting study exploring the proportion of people in a population who have a rotator cuff tear. The results clearly show that the prevalanc...

Cortisone injections are very popular in musculoskeletal medicine for all types of conditions. Specifically at the shoulder, sub-acromial bursa injections ar...