Welcome to another instalment of the shoulder physio literature review. This month I tackle the scapula assistance test and aim to articu...

Literature review, April 2020 There is a lot happening in the world right now but I will resist mentioning the "C" word as I'm sure you'v...

Literature review, February 2020 Welcome back. This month we tackle the question; does preseason screening of shoulder ROM variables help...

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 thin...

Welcome back to the Shoulder Physio literature review. This month we are tackling the in vogue concept of symptom modification. We will d...

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

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 ...

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 shoul...

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

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), ...

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 ins...

Frozen shoulder. The enigma. Often referred to as the last remaining mystery in MSK medicine. I think this is overly dramatic. We actuall...

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

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

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

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

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 h...