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Author(s): Ginn and Cohen (2005)<br />
Question ii.iii. Which should we use for both stages <strong>of</strong> contracted (frozen) shoulder: outpatient physiotherapy (with passive mobilisations) and<br />
home exercises or a subacromial steroid injection?<br />
Settings: Secondary care in Australia.<br />
No <strong>of</strong><br />
studies<br />
Quality assessment<br />
Design Limitations Inconsistency Indirectness Imprecision<br />
Patients' global impression <strong>of</strong> change (follow-up 5 weeks)<br />
1 randomised<br />
trials<br />
no serious<br />
limitations<br />
1 Critical, but unvalidated outcome.<br />
no serious<br />
inconsistency<br />
no serious<br />
indirectness<br />
no serious<br />
imprecision<br />
Other<br />
considerations<br />
none<br />
140<br />
Summary <strong>of</strong> findings<br />
No <strong>of</strong> patients Effect<br />
out-pt physiotherapy (with mobs)<br />
and home exs v. steroid injection<br />
22/26 (84.6%)<br />
control<br />
Relative<br />
(95% CI)<br />
Absolute<br />
Importance<br />
Quality<br />
17/22<br />
77 more per 1000 (from<br />
(77.3%) RR 1.1 (0.83 131 fewer to 348 more) <br />
to 1.45)<br />
HIGH CRITICAL1<br />
77.3%<br />
77 more per 1000 (from<br />
131 fewer to 348 more)
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