Table 4

Usual care of adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder, rotator cuff syndrome and shoulder impingement syndrome, excluding medication

	Subtype	Total						Inpatient						Outpatient
		ACS		RCS		SIS		ACS		RCS		SIS		ACS		RCS		SIS
		n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Surgery	Acromioplasty and repair of ruptured shoulder rotator cuff	20	0.19	849	8.76	101	1.38	20	4.31	848	59.22	101	14.53	–	–	1	0.01	–	–
	Acromioplasty	94	0.90	172	1.78	283	3.86	94	20.26	171	11.94	283	40.72	–	–	1	0.01	–	–
	Replacement arthroplasty–Total arthroplasty	1	0.01	18	0.19	0	0.00	1	0.22	18	1.26	0	0.00	–	–	–	–	–	–
Injection	Subcutaneous or intramuscular injection	3608	34.54	3135	32.36	2014	27.48	271	58.41	1037	72.42	463	66.62	3398	32.88	2256	24.03	1623	22.75
Injection	Intra-articular injection	3103	29.70	1790	18.47	1630	22.24	141	30.39	143	9.99	115	16.55	3017	29.19	1677	17.87	1551	21.74
Physiotherapy	Superficial heat therapy	6610	63.27	5147	53.12	3698	50.46	319	68.75	657	45.88	372	53.53	6396	61.88	4696	50.03	3428	48.04
	Deep heat therapy	5564	53.26	4222	43.58	3208	43.78	174	37.50	377	26.33	243	34.96	5461	52.83	4008	42.70	3057	42.85
	Interferential current therapy	3286	31.45	2450	25.29	1924	26.26	149	32.11	249	17.39	166	23.88	3188	30.84	2305	24.56	1807	25.33
	Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation	2962	28.35	2172	22.42	1484	20.25	84	18.10	289	20.18	137	19.71	2906	28.12	1994	21.24	1388	19.45
	Simple therapeutic exercise*	1989	19.04	855	8.82	642	8.76	94	20.26	145	10.13	156	22.45	1920	18.58	773	8.23	523	7.33
	Laser therapy*	786	7.52	841	8.68	557	7.60	33	7.11	169	11.80	100	14.39	763	7.38	719	7.66	479	6.71
	Complex therapeutic exercise*	303	2.90	683	7.05	329	4.49	107	23.06	395	27.58	207	29.78	243	2.35	476	5.07	179	2.51
	Myofascial trigger point injection therapy†	285	2.73	264	2.72	215	2.93	10	2.16	21	1.47	21	3.02	276	2.67	245	2.61	196	2.75
	Therapeutic exercise, isokinetic*	3	0.03	8	0.08	1	0.01	1	0.22	4	0.28	1	0.14	3	0.03	7	0.07	1	0.01

*Simple rehabilitation treatments, which can be prescribed by rehabilitation medicine, orthopaedic surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, general surgery, cardiovascular surgery and anaesthesiology specialists.
†Complex rehabilitation treatment, which can only be prescribed by rehabilitation medicine specialists.
ACS, adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder; RCS, rotator cuff syndrome; SIS, shoulder impingement syndrome.