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Filter by:Patients will be randomly assigned to one of two groups using a random number generator. Group 1 will be provided with in-office instruction of standard of care eccentric exercises for rotator cuff tendinopathy. Group 2 will be provided with in-office instruction as well as a instructional exercise video source (DVD) to take home as a reminder on how to perform two specific standard of care eccentric exercises for rotator cuff tendinopathy. Each group will be given a card to track adherence to the standard of care eccentric exercise routine as measured only by the days that they accomplish their exercises. Study exercise diary will be collected after 12 weeks of treatment. Eccentric exercises are taught as part of standard of care for rotator cuff tendinopathy.
This study is designed to assess the impact of epidural morphine on: - The incidence and severity of shoulder pain following a thoracotomy. - The need for additional analgesics, such as opioids for the relief of shoulder pain. - Its safety profile compared to epidural fentanyl following a thoracotomy. The basic hypothesis of this study is that an infusion of epidural bupivacaine and morphine initiated after the induction of anesthesia and continued until 72 hours postoperatively will reduce the incidence and severity of shoulder pain following a thoracotomy when compared to an epidural infusion of bupivacaine and fentanyl.
The investigators want to know whether injecting numbing medication on the side of the neck (also called superficial cervical plexus block) can prevent or reduce shoulder pain that patients commonly experience after lung surgery. The investigators will perform the injection at the end of your surgery while the subjects are still under general anesthesia and before they wake up. The investigators will use a local anesthetic (bupivacaine or Marcaine®) that is routinely used for skin infiltration of the surgical wounds. This study is randomized and single-blind. This means that subjects will be assigned by chance (like flipping a coin) to receive either an injection with active medication (bupivacaine), or no injection at all.
The primary goal of the Swedish national rehabilitation plan on pain is to reduce disability and facilitate return-to-work. However, there is a lack of treatment strategies that effectively target and affect return-to-work and reduce sickness absence, and that in addition are sufficiently easy and feasible to administer in primary care. A new activity and life-role targeting rehabilitation program (ALAR) has been developed to reduce psychosocial barriers to rehabilitation progress, promote re-integration into life-role activities and facilitate return-to-work. The program will be implemented and provided as one of the pain treatment modalities available through multi-professional teams in primary care in one Swedish county. This study aims to evaluate the effect of an activity and life-role targeting pain rehabilitation program on the outcome variables return-to-work and sickness absence.
The purpose of this pilot study is to conduct research to determine the most effective physical therapy treatment for a condition called shoulder impingement. This condition occurs when tissue in the shoulder is caught between the humerus (arm bone) and the scapula (shoulder blade). This causes pain when one tries to reach overhead or behind the back. Two treatment methods will be used in the study. The first method uses the traditional treatments of hands-on shoulder stretching, shoulder exercise, posture, and education. The second method will use the traditional methods of shoulder treatment in addition to treatment of the cervical spine. It is hypothesized that a group of patients between 40 and 70 years of age with signs and symptoms of shoulder impingement who receive physical therapy to the cervical spine and shoulder will report a higher level of functioning, will report less pain, and will gain more range of motion than a group of patients receiving physical therapy solely to the shoulder.