[Conservative treatment of the painful, stiff shoulder]

The painful respectively stiff shoulder form an important part of orthopaedic practice. The treatment of patients with such a disease is at first always conservative except acute rupture of the tendon. Recurrences and those who do not respond to therapy require surgery. This study includes 86 patients treated for the painful shoulder. The were followed up and subjected to statistical analysis to determine the success of treatment by conservative methods. Conservative methods were in 83 shoulders, what amounts to a rate of 93 percent. Our results correspond to those reported in literature.