Do glenohumeral corticosteroid injections improve pain and shoulder outcomes in patients with adhesive capsulitis?
Glenohumeral corticosteroid injections provide rapid short-term pain relief for adhesive capsulitis, but offer no long-term advantage over placebo or other treatments.
Corticosteroid injections offer rapid pain relief in the short-term (particularly in the first 6 weeks) for adhesive capsulitis. Long-term outcomes seem to be similar to other treatments, including placebo. The added benefit of image-guided corticosteroid injections in improving shoulder outcomes needs further assessment.
Song et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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