Jesper Blomquist News Today

The results of a recent trial suggest that the use of this treatment needs to be reevaluated. A clinical trial recently published in The BMJ has found that a saline injection treatment commonly employed to treat calcific tendinopathy, a painful condition resulting from calcium accumulation in the s

Objective To compare treatment effects between ultrasound guided lavage with corticosteroid injection and sham lavage with and without corticosteroid injection in patients with calcific tendinopathy of the shoulder. Design Pragmatic, three arm, parallel group, double blinded, sham controlled, randomised, superiority trial with repeated measurements over 24 months. Setting Six hospitals in Norway and Sweden. Participants 220 adults with calcific tendinopathy of the shoulder, persistent for at lea...