New study to explore personalised care for people with shoulder pain

A collaboration is being launched by UK scientists to develop new clinical tools to offer personally-tailored interventions for people withshoulder pain. Led by Keele University with joint funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) andArthritis Research UK, the programme will be one of the largest ever research efforts that NIHR has jointly funded with a charity, and will help to ensure that people receive the treatments from which they are most likely to benefit. One in five adults in the UK experiences shoulder pain. Although around 1.5 million people visit their GP for shoulderpain each year, 40 per cent continue to experience ongoing pain despite treatment. The aims of the research At present, patients with shoulder pain are usually treated with exercises, shoulder injections or surgery, but there is a real demand for additional approaches to therapy. The new study will see researchers from the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre at Keele University and the University of Oxford develop and test a new screening and decision-making tool for treatment. They will do this by identifying factors that may influence whether patients are likely to benefit from specific treatments. They will also follow 1,000 patients who have consulted their GP or aphysiotherapist for shoulder pain. Expected benefits The team hopes the new tool will help doctors assess the likely cause and outcomes of shoulder problems. This will help them offer people personalised treatm...
Source: Arthritis Research UK - Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news