Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on December 3, 2007
Rheumatology 2008 47(2):229-230; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kem295
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Comment on: A prospective double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial of ultrasound in the physiotherapy treatment of shoulder pain
Saxion Hogeschool Enschede, The Netherlands
Correspondence to: G. Koel. E-mail: g.koel@home.nl
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SIR, Ainsworth et al. [1] included 221 patients with unilateral shoulder pain, and randomized them into two groups that received (on average) six treatments in 6 weeks. Both groups received the interventions information and manual therapy; the intervention group further was applicated with real ultrasound (US) (that is indeed something totally different from treated with) and the control group with sham US