Comparative effect of triamcinolone/lidocaine ultrasonophoresis and injection on pain, disability, quality of life in patients with acute rotator cuff related shoulder pain: a double blinded randomized controlled trial
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Alleviating inflammation should be considered as one of the first steps of the treatment plan in patients with acute rotator cuff related shoulder pain (RCRSP). OBJECTIVE: To compare the effects of triamcinolone/lidocaine ultrasonophoresis, injection on pain, disability, and quality of life in patients with acute RCRSP. METHODS: A total of 28 acute RCRSP patients were randomly allocated into two groups of ultrasonophoresis and injection. Both groups received vitamin C and shoulder care education for 10 days and then were subjected to therapeutic interventions. Ultrasonophoresis group received triamcinolone (16 mg) and lidocaine (2mg) using ultrasonophoresis (frequency: 3 MHz, intensity: 1.50 W/Cm2), while the injection group received a single subacromial injection of triamcinolone (80 mg) and lidocaine (10 mg). The main outcomes measures were pain assessed by two scales (visual analog scale), and shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI), disability (SPADI), and quality of life (Western Ontario rotator cuff questionnaire). RESULTS: Although the main effect of time was statistically significant for all dependent variables (P< 0.01), no significant interaction was found between group and time (P-value (0.12-0.55)). The ultrasonophoresis effect, size for pain, disability, and quality of life were 2.58, 1.43, 1.78, and 1.35, respectively. The injection effect, size for pain, disability, and quality of life were 1.98, 2.02, 1.40, and 1.60, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Triamcinolone/lidocaine ultrasonophoresis demonstrated similar outcomes to injection in reducing pain, improving disability, and enhancing quality of life in patients with acute RCRSP in short time. According to our findings, ultrasonophoresis with triamcinolone/lidocaine cream is as effective as triamcinolone/lidocaine injection and can be proposed as a potential adjunctive treatment for patients with acute RCRSP.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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