Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial

Beard, David; Rees, Jonathan; Cook, Jonathan; Rombach, Ines; Cooper, Cushla; Merritt, Naomi; A. Shirkey, Beverly; Donovan, Jenny; Gwilym, Stephen; Savulescu, Julian; Moser, Jane; Gray, Alastair; Jepson, Marcus; Tracey, Irene; Judge, Andrew; Wartolowska, Karolina; Carr, Andrew; Ahrens, Philip; Baldwick, Cheryl; Brinsden, M.D.; Brownlow, Harry; J. Burton, David; Sohail Butt, Muhammad; Carr, Andrew; Panayiotou Charalambous, Charalambos; Conboy, Veronica; Dennell, Lucy; Donaldson, Oliver; Drew, Steven; J. Dwyer, Amitabh; Gidden, David; Hallam, P.; Kalogrianitis, Socrates; Kelly, Cormac; Kulkarni, Rohit; Matthews, Tim; McBirnie, Julie; Patel, Vipul; Peach, Chris; Roberts, C.P.; Robinson, David; Rosell, P.A.E.; J. Rossouw, D.; Senior, Colin; Singh, Bijayendra; Sjølin, Søren; N. Taylor, G.; Venkateswaran, Balachandran; L. Woods, David

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32457-1

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Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial

Published in The Lancet • Nov 21, 2017

Authors:

David Beard

Jonathan Rees

Jonathan Cook

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Arthroscopic sub-acromial decompression (decompressing the sub-acromial space by removing bone spurs and soft tissue arthroscopically) is a common surgery for subacromial shoulder pain, but its effectiveness is uncertain. We did a study to assess its effectiveness and to investigate the ...

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Medicine

Subacromial impingement

Placebo

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