title: [Comparative study of the effectiveness of lasers and cryotherapy in the treatment of painful shoulder syndrome].
abstract: This research tries to determine the difference between two forms of physical therapy, as regards their efficiency, in treating the painful shoulder syndrome. They are: laser treatment, representing modern technology, and cryotherapy, an old and traditional form of treatment. The research comprised 60 patients, divided in two groups of 30 patients each. One group was treated by the cryotherapy procedures, the other by ten laser treatments, both having in addition individual therapeutic exercise for each patient. The difference in efficiency regarding both procedures were observed on the basis of objective measurable parameters (abduction, anteflexion, retroflexion, external and internal rotation, the distance vertebrae prominens and styloid radius) as well as in view of anamnestic terms (pain both at rest and in motion) recorded before the treatment started and after the application of ten therapeutic procedures. The statistic results of data processing showed no significant difference in efficiency, regarding the objective parametres, between the two procedures treating painful shoulder syndrome. Nevertheless, laser treatment proved more efficient in reducing pain. In assessing the efficiency of both treatments there is a slight discrepancy as to the outcome between patients and the researcher: the patients found the laser treatment more efficient than cryotherapy, while the researcher's evaluation was equal both procedures.
authors.affiliation: Odjel za fizikalnu medicinu, rehabilitaciju i reumatologiju Klinicke bolnice Split.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vlak
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jakelić
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jajić
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018771:Arthralgia / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000628:therapy*; D017679:Cryotherapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012785:Shoulder Joint; D013577:Syndrome
vernacular_title: Komparativno istrazivanje ucinkovitosti lasera i krioterapije u lijecenju sindroma bolnog ramena.