The Natural History of Idiopathic Frozen Shoulder: A 2- to 27-year Followup Study
- 17 November 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research
- Vol. 470 (4), 1133-1143
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-011-2176-4
Abstract
The natural history of spontaneous idiopathic frozen shoulder is controversial. Many studies claim that complete resolution is not inevitable. Based on the 40-year clinical experience of the senior author, we believed most patients with idiopathic frozen shoulder might have a higher rate of resolution than earlier thought.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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