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Adhesive capsulitis (AC) is a significant cause of chronic shoulder pain and disability. Non-surgical option consisting of intraarticular corticosteroid (IA CS) injection with structured physiotherapy (PT) is the current standard of care. More recent randomized controlled trials have found that rotator interval (RI) hydro-dissection approach leads to better improvement in pain as compared to IA approach. Despite being non-inferior to surgical management, long-term outcome studies of patients treated with IA CS injection and PT have shown that patients only achieve satisfactory outcomes in 72.3% of patients after a mean symptom duration of 41.8 months. Furthermore, CS injections are associated with significant systemic and local adverse effects such as Cushing syndrome, osteopenia/ osteoporosis, infection, and hyperglycemia. In recent years, dextrose injection has emerged as an effective alternative to CS-based injections to treat chronic painful musculoskeletal conditions such as chronic low back pain, peripheral nerve entrapment and lateral epicondylitis. The investigators aim to study the effects of RI hydro-dissection with dextrose 5% (D5%) on pain relief, shoulder ROM and shoulder function in patients with primary AC.


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NCT number NCT05977985
Study type Interventional
Source University of Malaya
Contact Richard Teo
Email richardskteo@ummc.edu.my
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase Phase 4
Start date August 1, 2023
Completion date July 1, 2025

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