Relationship Between Central Sensitization Levels and Treatment Outcomes in Frozen Shoulder Treatment

Sultan 1. Murat State Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Shoulder Pain

Intra-Articular Injection

Treatment

Frozen Shoulder

Central Sensitisation

Treatments

Other: Treatment outcome

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07124689

26/06/2025-Number:37

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between treatment outcomes and central sensitization levels in patients who received intra-articular injections for frozen shoulder.

Enrollment

87 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Being between 18 and 75 years of age
More than one-third of the active and passive movement of the painful shoulder is limited in two or more planes
Having pain and limited movement in the shoulder for 3-12 months

Exclusion criteria

Having bilateral shoulder pain
Patients with incomplete study data
Having cervical radiculopathy
Having a predominant central sensitization syndrome (such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome)
Patients taking antidepressants or anticonvulsants that may affect central sensitization
Having a history of rheumatological disease
Having a history of active malignancy
Patients receiving treatment for active psychiatric disorders
Having a history of trauma and/or surgery in the same shoulder region
Patients who received local shoulder injections and/or physical therapy within the last 3 months
Patients with calcific tendonitis, glenohumeral osteoarthritis, or acromioclavicular joint osteoarthritis on plain radiographs
Having a full-thickness rotator cuff tear on shoulder ultrasound