New combo treatment may ease frozen shoulder pain faster
NCT ID NCT07235982
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether adding a nerve block to a steroid injection works better than a steroid injection alone for people with frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis). About 50 adults aged 41-65 with persistent shoulder pain will be enrolled. The goal is to see which approach provides better pain relief and improves shoulder function.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 50 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A government agency
The lead sponsor is a government body.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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41 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients acceptance * Age: 41-65 years old * Sex: both sex (males or females). * Physical status: American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) І, II. * Patients attend orthopedic or pain clinic with complaint of shoulder pain and stiffness. These patients received conservative management of pain with no relief of symptoms for at least 2 weeks. Exclusion Criteria: * Shoulder pain due to secondary causes, e.g. acute trauma, fractures, bony deformity, glenohumeral joint pathology, acromioclavicular joint pathology and rotator cuff disorder. * Patient with any contraindications of regional blocks (as coagulopathy or local infection at injection site) * Patients with known history of allergy to the study drugs (bupivacaine and methylprednisolone). * Advanced hepatic, renal, cardiovascular, neurologic and respiratory diseases, uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and thyroid. * History of neuropathy in the involved limb or previous revision surgery.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Faculity of Medicine, Zagazig University
RECRUITINGZagazig, Egypt
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