What do Cochrane Systematic Reviews say about conservative and surgical therapeutic interventions for treating rotator cuff disease? Synthesis of evidence.
Eduardo Signorini Bicas FrancoMaria Eduarda Dos Santos PugaAline Mizusaki ImotoJhony de Almeida EstevamVitor da MataMaria Stella PeccinPublished in: Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicina (2020)
The findings suggest that strengthening exercises, with or without associated manual therapy techniques and other resources, were the interventions with greatest power of treatment over the medium and long terms, for individuals with shoulder pain. These had greater therapeutic power than surgical procedures, electrotherapy or photobiomodulation.Protocol registration number in the PROSPERO database: ID - CRD42018096578.