Manipulation under anaesthesia for frozen shoulders: outdated technique or well-established quick fix?

Functional outcome of frozen shoulder after manipulation under anaesthesia.

OBJECTIVE To analyze and compare the functional outcome in adhesive capsulitis after manipulation under anaesthesia and keeping the extremity in abduction and external rotation combined with local steroid injection v/s manipulation under anaesthesia combined with local steroid alone, in terms of range of motion. METHODS A comparative prospective study was done at the department of Orthopedics...

The Solution First Programming Process—or “How Quick Fix is much more than a quick fix”!

Learning to program is hard and one major obstacle for students is getting to grips with the programming process itself: What do I do now, what are the next steps, and what end result do I want to achieve? Further complications arise as many, even simple, designs require quite a lot of code to be written that are just “stepping stones” on the path to a solution. Thus, instead of “writing the co...

Thawing the frozen shoulder. A randomised trial comparing manipulation under anaesthesia with hydrodilatation.

This study prospectively evaluated the outcome of manipulation under anaesthesia and hydrodilatation as treatments for adhesive capsulitis. A total of 36 patients (38 shoulders) were randomised to receive either method, with all patients being treated in stage II of the disease process. The mean age of the patients was 55.2 years (44 to 70) and the mean duration of symptoms was 33.7 weeks (12 t...

Comorbid anxiety and depression: bête noire or quick fix?

The common territory shared by anxiety and depression has always been a contentious subject. Research in favour of anxious depression as a potentially treatment-relevant subtype has been limited by diagnostic dilemmas and crude measurement. The most recent evidence from genetics, neuropeptide systems and functional neuroimaging suggests a valid diagnostic construct.

Parent artery occlusion: a well-established technique.