Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery
An Arthroscopic Technique for Treating Patients With Frozen Shoulder☆
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MATERIALS AND METHODS
Forty-six patients with a diagnosis of primary or secondary frozen shoulder who had symptoms for an average of 12 months and failed conservative management of at least 12 weeks of physical therapy and nonsteroidal and/or systemic steroid medications, were treated arthroscopically with the procedure described below. No patient had undergone a previous surgical procedure for frozen shoulder. All procedures were performed over a 3-year period and no patient underwent manipulation under anesthesia.
STATISTICS
Descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviations were calculated for patients' range of motion measurements. A Pearson correlation at the P <.01 level of significance was used to analyze the modified shoulder questionnaire variables.
SURGICAL TECHNIQUE
Interscalene anesthesia with ropivacaine 0.5% and epinephrine 1:200,000 was used in all patients and the surgery was performed as an outpatient procedure. All patients received intravenous sedation. The interscalene anesthetic provided approximately 12 to 18 hours of pain relief postoperatively.
After a side-to-side examination of allowable passive glenohumeral motion was performed, the patient underwent standard glenohumeral arthroscopy in the beach chair position. The anterior portal was
RESULTS
There were 22 men and 24 women with an average age of 49 years (range, 21 to 76 years). Because of incomplete records, only 43 charts were used for statistical analysis. The average follow-up periods for the functional and clinical assessments were 22 and 5 months, respectively. Twelve percent of patients had a history of diabetes mellitus and 49% underwent at least one subacromial injection before surgery. Twenty-four charts of patients who underwent an isolated anterior release were reviewed,
DISCUSSION
The etiology of the frozen shoulder remains enigmatic. Investigators have proposed a variety of causes from autoimmune theories to systemic disease. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Lundberg subdivided the frozen shoulder syndrome into (1) primary or idiopathic and (2) secondary. 10 Others have simply defined frozen shoulder syndrome as a clinical loss of glenohumeral motion preceded in many patients by a period of relative immobilization.2, 11 A variety of factors have been reported to be associated with frozen
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