{"id":880510,"date":"2026-09-05T04:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880510\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:40:15","slug":"95-of-shoulder-pain-presentations-need-only-education-and-watchful-waiting-says-jama-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/880510\/","title":{"rendered":"95% of shoulder pain presentations need only &#8216;education and watchful waiting&#8217;, says JAMA review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Education, activity modification, analgesia, exercise-based rehabilitation and watchful waiting are sufficient to manage 95% of shoulder pain presentations in primary care, Australian experts say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their review in JAMA Internal Medicine says early routine imaging, which may detect incidental anomalies, remains common despite not being associated with better outcomes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the studies cited is a 2016 randomised controlled trial that found no clinically significant difference in the primary outcome measure\u00a0after one year between those who underwent ultrasound-tailored treatment and those who received usual care in patients with acute subacromial disorders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, a Finnish cross-sectional study\u00a0found that MRI revealed that rotator-cuff abnormalities were almost universal in those over 40 and showed poor concordance with symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Education, activity modification, analgesia, exercise-based rehabilitation and watchful waiting are sufficient to manage 95% of shoulder pain presentations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,137],"class_list":["post-880510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}