EFFICACY OF ULTRASOUND-GUIDED INTRA-ARTICULAR HYALURONIC ACID INJECTION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ADHESIVE CAPSULITIS: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Chih-Ya CHANG, Ching-Ting CHEN, Yung-Hsiang LIN, Chi-Fu CHIANG, Yi-Wen MAO, Li-Wei CHOU · 2026
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Description
Adhesive capsulitis, better known as frozen shoulder, locks the joint in its frozen phase and hurts. Chih-Ya Chang and co-authors ran a randomized trial with forty-six adults to compare two treatments. One group got three weekly injections of hyaluronic acid into the joint, guided by ultrasound. The other got supervised physical therapy twice a week for six weeks. Pain, disability, and shoulder movement were tracked for twenty-six weeks.
Both groups improved much on every measure. The injection group's pain and disability score fell from forty-three to sixteen. The therapy group fell from fifty-two to twenty-three. Pain dropped by roughly two thirds and three fifths in the two groups. At no check point did the groups differ from each other, and no side effects appeared. The authors conclude both options work about equally well for frozen phase disease.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chih-Ya CHANG, Ching-Ting CHEN, Yung-Hsiang LIN, Chi-Fu CHIANG, Yi-Wen MAO, Li-Wei CHOU |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |