Manual therapy and exercise vs glucocorticoid injection: Adverse events
- Population
- patients with adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
- Intervention
- Manual therapy and exercise
- Comparison
- glucocorticoid injection
- Outcome
- Adverse events
Combination of manual therapy and exercise probably leads to higher adverse events compared with glucocorticoid injection (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Combination of manual therapy and exercise vs glucocorticoid injection Adverse events · patients with adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) Combination of manual therapy and exercise probably leads to higher adverse events compared with glucocorticoid injection (moderate certainty). Manual therapy and exercise for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) (2014) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.07 | 1 study · 114 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual therapy and exercise for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) 2014 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | Not extracted | Not assessed |
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How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.