Among patients attending primary health care due to a musculo-skeletal cause, shoulder pain is the third most common disorder after neck- and low-back pain. The most prevalent aetiologies are over-use injuries, degenerative mechanisms and acute injuries. Approximately half of the cases has a subacromial cause. Subacromial pain is often persistent and affects the patients鈥� functional activities. This motivates the field of research. Other common explanations to shoulder problems are 鈥漟rozen shoulder鈥� (adhesive capsulitis) or gleno-humeral hyper-laxity with instability phenomenon.
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