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Comparing two injection treatments for shoulder pain

Theme

Adult Trauma

Body Part

Shoulder to Elbow

Shoulder pain accounts for 1–2% of all adult consultations with a GP in the UK. Despite being a common injury, shoulder pain does not always have a favourable outcome with current treatments.

Currently the most common treatments are steroid injections combined with physiotherapy. Recently, there have been questions about whether using steroid injections is actually effective in the long term, or if there are any negative effects on the nearby tendons.

This has led to the development of new injectable treatments aimed to help tendons repair themselves. These are termed 'biologic' injections, and are produced from the patients own blood.

The aim of our study is to see if it is feasible to compare one of these biologic-injection treatments against steroid injections.