A generalized disease is induced experimentally in the rat by administration of Freund's adjuvant. The primary clinical and pathologic lesions are arthritis, periarthritis, peritendinitis, and periostitis in the joints of the extremities and tail. Accompanying the arthritis in some cases, and never observed in its absence, are other specific tissue lesions including iridocyclitis, nodular lesio...

Cost effective treatment is needed for common self limiting rheumatological conditions. Periarthritis of the shoulder is an example. There is no consensus for one type of treatment, though local steroids or physiotherapy are conventionally used. Their cost and efficacy were compared in a prospective randomised observer-blind trial--in essence a medical audit of the treatment of a common rheumat...

Therapy was highly successful using both body acupuncture and acupuncture of the ear in illnesses ranging from cervical, thoracic and lumbar syndromes, gonarthritis coxarthritis, rhizarthritis, periarthritis of the shoulder, epicondylitis humer radialis, tendonitis, fibromyalgia and polyarthritis, Morbus Bechterew, paresis after strokes, migraine and other headache-syndromes, Tinnitus, trigemin...

BACKGROUND Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease affecting different organs with different frequency rates depending on geographical location. Musculoskeletal abnormalities includes osseous lesions (small and large bone sarcoidosis), sarcoidal arthropathy, and sarcoidal myopathy. Musculoskeletal involvement is reported in a significant number of patients. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determi...

BACKGROUND Local administration of opioids causes effective analgesia without adverse effects related to the central nervous system. After the beneficial demonstration of peripheral opioid receptors in joint synovia, intra-articular opioid injections were used for pain treatment. Clinical studies have reported the safety and efficacy of hyaluronate injection in the shoulder joint of patients wi...

Objective: Adhesive capsulitis is a condition characterized by shoulder pain and limited motion. It primarily affects women can be secondary or idiopathic. Risk factors include diabetes, rotator cuff impairment, cardiovascular disease. Nevasier first identified the pathology differentiated it from periarthritis.
 Methods: has prevalence of 2-5% in general population India, with highest occ...