Many patients complain of hemiplegic shoulder pain following stroke. Here, the
effectiveness of pulsed radiofrequency stimulation of the suprascapular nerve is
compared with intra-articular corticosteroid injection for chronic hemiplegic
shoulder pain following stroke. This single-center, prospective, randomized
controlled study included 20 patients with hemiplegic shoulder pain after stroke,
randomly assigned to the pulsed radiofrequency and intra-articular corticosteroid
injection treatment groups (n = 10 in each). Hemiplegic shoulder pain
severity was measured by numeric rating scale and passive shoulder range motion
was assessed at baseline and one and two months after each procedure. Compared to
the baseline numeric rating scale scores, post-treatment scores decreased
significantly in both groups (p
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Comparison of the effectiveness of pulsed radiofrequency of the suprascapular nerve and intra-articular corticosteroid injection for hemiplegic shoulder pain management
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Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Seoul Songdo Hospital, 04597 Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, 705-717 Daegu, Republic of Korea
*Correspondence: wheel633@ynu.ac.kr (Min Cheol Chang)
J. Integr. Neurosci. 2021, 20(3), 687–693;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.jin2003073
Submitted: 13 April 2021 | Revised: 30 April 2021 | Accepted: 21 May 2021 | Published: 30 September 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Keywords
Pulsed radiofrequency
Corticosteroid
Hemiplegic shoulder pain
Stroke
Peripheral neurons
Neurology
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