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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bertrand, Helene, MD, CCFP
• Reeves, Kenneth Dean, MD
• Bennett, Cameron J., MPhty (MSK), BSc
• Bicknell, Simon, MD, FRCPC
• Cheng, An-Lin, PhD

Titel

Dextrose Prolotherapy Versus Control Injections in Painful Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy

Ist Teil von

• Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 2016, Vol.97 (1), p.17-25

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract Objective To compare the effect of dextrose prolotherapy on pain levels and degenerative changes in painful rotator cuff tendinopathy against 2 potentially active control injection procedures. Design Randomized controlled trial, blinded to participants and evaluators. Setting Outpatient pain medicine practice. Participants Persons (N=73) with chronic shoulder pain, examination findings of rotator cuff tendinopathy, and ultrasound-confirmed supraspinatus tendinosis/tear. Interventions Three monthly injections either (1) onto painful entheses with dextrose (Enthesis-Dextrose), (2) onto entheses with saline (Enthesis-Saline), or (3) above entheses with saline (Superficial-Saline). All solutions included 0.1% lidocaine. All participants received concurrent programmed physical therapy. Main Outcome Measures Primary: participants achieving an improvement in maximal current shoulder pain ≥2.8 (twice the minimal clinically important difference for visual analog scale pain) or not. Secondary: improvement in the Ultrasound Shoulder Pathology Rating Scale (USPRS) and a 0-to-10 satisfaction score (10, completely satisfied). Results The 73 participants had moderate to severe shoulder pain (7.0±2.0) for 7.6±9.6 years. There were no baseline differences between groups. Blinding was effective. At 9-month follow-up, 59% of Enthesis-Dextrose participants maintained ≥2.8 improvement in pain compared with Enthesis-Saline (37%; P =.088) and Superficial-Saline (27%; P =.017). Enthesis-Dextrose participants' satisfaction was 6.7±3.2 compared with Enthesis-Saline (4.7±4.1; P =.079) and Superficial-Saline (3.9±3.1; P =.003). USPRS findings were not different between groups ( P =.734). Conclusions In participants with painful rotator cuff tendinopathy who receive physical therapy, injection of hypertonic dextrose on painful entheses resulted in superior long-term pain improvement and patient satisfaction compared with blinded saline injection over painful entheses, with intermediate results for entheses injection with saline. These differences could not be attributed to a regenerative effect. Dextrose prolotherapy may improve on the standard care of painful rotator cuff tendinopathy for certain patients.