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Article: Studies from J.D. Rompe and co-authors have provided new information about corticosteroid.(Report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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"There are no controlled studies testing the efficacy of various nonoperative strategies for treatment of greater trochanter pain syndrome. The null hypothesis was that local corticosteroid injection, home training, and repetitive low-energy shock wave therapy produce equivalent outcomes 4 months from baseline," scientists in Mainz, Germany report (see also Corticosteroid).
"Randomized controlled clinical trial; Level of evidence, 2. Two hundred twenty-nine patients with refractory unilateral greater trochanter pain syndrome were assigned sequentially to a home training program, a single local corticosteroid injection (25 mg prednisolone), or a repetitive ...