Shoulder

Shoulder dystocia

Cutaneous Vasculitis

Pain

Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in term...

Vasculitis

Vasculitis (plural: vasculitides) refers to a heterogeneous group of disorders that are characterized by inflammatory destruction of blood vessels. Vasculitis is primarily due to leukocyte migration...

Vasculitis: Biomarkers for staging ANCA-associated vasculitis activity

Gene Variants Linked to Rare Vasculitis (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- The two primary types of vasculitis associated with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies have a strong genetic component, a genome-wide association study showed.

A sinister cause of shoulder pain, with numbness and weakness in the ipsilateral hand

A 41 year old patient with insulin dependent diabetes presented with a one month history of progressively worsening pain, numbness, and weakness of his right shoulder and arm. His history included......

Botox Shows Promise Against Persistent Neck, Shoulder Pain

SATURDAY, Oct. 13 -- Botox injections, long used to smooth away wrinkles, might also soothe chronic neck and shoulder muscle pain, new research suggests. This type of persistent pain "is a common diso...

Shoulder injury

A 57 year old right hand dominant woman presented to the emergency department with left shoulder pain one day after a low energy fall from standing height onto her outstretched arm. On clinical......

Maintenance immunosuppression may help in vasculitis subgroup

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with early systemic cytoplasm antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) tend to have better relapse-free survival over the long term with cyclophosphamide rather th...

Glucocorticoids Key in Vasculitis Trial (CME/CE)

SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) -- Mycophenolate mofetil (CellCept) proved non-inferior to cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) for treating ANCA-associated vasculitis in a regimen that permitted use of glucocorticoi...

Steroids, Relapse Predict Damage from Vasculitis (CME/CE)

(MedPage Today) -- BIRMINGHAM, England -- Patients with systemic vasculitis who require steroids for long periods or who have multiple relapses are likely to have extensive, irreversible organ damage,...

Shoulder function and active motion deficit in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Purpose: To discover whether there are differences between patients with RA with and without active motion deficit in the shoulder (passive ROM greater than active ROM) concerning disease characterist...

Mental motor imagery indexes pain: The hand laterality task.

Mental motor imagery is subserved by the same cognitive systems that underlie action. In turn, action is informed by the anticipated sensory consequences of movement, including pain. In light of these...

Shoulder Pain Following Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Factors Affecting the Incidence and Severity.

Abstract Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the standard treatment for gall bladder disease. However, despite its low degree of invasiveness, many patients complain of postoperat...

Is fibromyalgia a cause of failure in the treatment of a painful shoulder?

PURPOSE: This study aims to review the incidence of fibromyalgia in a cohort of patients who were treated for shoulder pain and address whether a concomitant fibromyalgia could have had detrimental ef...

Does suprascapular nerve block reduce shoulder pain following stroke: a double-blind randomised controlled trial with masked outcome assessment.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Shoulder pain is a common complication of a stroke which can impede participation in rehabilitation programs and has been associated with poorer outcomes. The evidence base for c...