Ultrasound-Guided Drug Injection Combined With Suprascapular Nerve Pulsed Radiofrequency for Post-Stroke Hemiplegic Shoulder Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Rao, Yi; Zhang, Yufei; Zhang, Wei; Chen, Haiping; Liu, Chenxi; Zhang, Meilin; Sun, Jinwen; Yin, Ting et al. · Am J Phys Med Rehabil · 2026

rct · Level II

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Abstract

Observation on the efficacy of ultrasound-guided drug Injection combined with Suprascapular nerve pulsed radiofrequency in treating soft tissue lesions in post-stroke hemiplegic shoulder pain. A total of 30 patients with post-stroke shoulder pain and soft tissue injury were enrolled and randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group, with 15 cases in each group. The experimental group received a single ultrasound-guided drug injection combined with pulsed radiofrequency therapy of the suprascapular nerve, while the control group received a single ultrasound-guided drug injection alone. The VAS, FMA, and BI scores of the experimental group and the control group at different time points all showed statistical significance (P<0.05). The combined ultrasound-guided drug injection and suprascapular nerve pulsed radiofrequency shows superior efficacy to injection alone in treating hemiplegic shoulder pain.