‘Frozen shoulder’ is ill-defined. How can it be described better?

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Sophie Abrassart¹  Franck Kolo²  Sébastian Piotton³  Joe Chih-Hao Chiu⁴  Patrick Stirling⁵  Pierre Hoffmeyer⁶  Alexandre Lädermann¹ 

[1] Division of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, La Tour Hospital;Rive Droite Radiology Centre;Department of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital;ReSurg SA;Division of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals;Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva

关键词: adhesive capsulitis;    classification;    frozen shoulder;    naming;    natural history;    phases;    primary;    secondary;   

DOI  :  10.1302/2058-5241.5.190012

学科分类：神经科学

来源: The British Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery

【 摘 要 】

Frozen shoulder, despite being a common and debilitating complaint, is a subject of considerable uncertainty both within scientific literature and clinical practice. Even its name is a topic of serious contention in the medical profession; across papers published over the past 70 years, alternative names put forward or utilized in leading journals have included ‘adhesive capsulitis’,1 ‘fibrotic capsulitis’,2 ‘primary idiopathic stiff shoulder’,3 and ‘contracture of the shoulder’.4 These terms have all been applied to the painful, debilitating contraction of the shoulder5 which has been the subject of many attempts at definition. Most of these attempts do not deviate far from that given by Codman in 1934,6 usefully provided in updated terminology by Bunker in 2009.

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