Background While many treatments, including corticosteroid injections in and around the
shoulder, are advocated to be of benefit for shoulder pain, few are of proven efficacy. This …

Background This review is one in a series of reviews of interventions for lateral elbow pain.
Objectives To determine the effectiveness and safety of extracorporeal shock wave therapy …

Background Adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder or painful stiff shoulder) is characterised by
spontaneous onset of shoulder pain accompanied by progressive stiffness and disability. It …

The vascular actions of insulin may contribute to the increase in glucose uptake by skeletal
muscle. We have recently shown that when capillary recruitment by insulin is blocked in vivo, …

Background This review is one in a series of Cochrane reviews of interventions for shoulder
pain in adults. Objectives To determine the efficacy and safety of oral steroids for adhesive …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy and safety of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT)
for lateral elbow pain. METHODS: Systematic review of randomized controlled trials …

Objective To determine whether an active physiotherapy program following arthrographic
joint distension for adhesive capsulitis provides additional benefits. Methods We performed a …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the health literacy of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) attending
community-based rheumatology practice. METHODS: Eighty patients were administered …

Exercise training is considered to be beneficial in the treatment and prevention of insulin
insensitivity, and much of the effect occurs in muscle. We have recently shown that capillary …

Laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) signal responses have been compared with metabolic
changes using both a surface macroprobe and randomly placed implantable microprobes in …