TY - JOUR
T1 - Predicting response to physiotherapy treatment for musculoskeletal shoulder pain
T2 - Protocol for a longitudinal cohort study
AU - Chester, Rachel
AU - Shepstone, Lee
AU - Lewis, Jeremy S
AU - Jerosch-Herold, Christina
N1 - © 2013 Chester et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
PY - 2013/6/21
Y1 - 2013/6/21
N2 - Shoulder pain affects all ages, with a lifetime prevalence of one in three. The most effective treatment is not known. Physiotherapy is often recommended as the first choice of treatment. At present, it is not possible to identify, from the initial physiotherapy assessment, which factors predict the outcome of physiotherapy for patients with shoulder pain. The primary objective of this study is to identify which patient characteristics and baseline measures, typically assessed at the first physiotherapy appointment, are related to the functional outcome of shoulder pain 6 weeks and 6 months after starting physiotherapy treatment.
AB - Shoulder pain affects all ages, with a lifetime prevalence of one in three. The most effective treatment is not known. Physiotherapy is often recommended as the first choice of treatment. At present, it is not possible to identify, from the initial physiotherapy assessment, which factors predict the outcome of physiotherapy for patients with shoulder pain. The primary objective of this study is to identify which patient characteristics and baseline measures, typically assessed at the first physiotherapy appointment, are related to the functional outcome of shoulder pain 6 weeks and 6 months after starting physiotherapy treatment.
U2 - 10.1186/1471-2474-14-192
DO - 10.1186/1471-2474-14-192
M3 - Article
C2 - 23800352
SN - 1471-2474
VL - 14
SP - 192
JO - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
JF - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
ER -