Tuesday 21 November 2017

Common NHS shoulder surgery no better than placebo at relieving pain

Common NHS shoulder surgery no better than placebo at relieving pain An increasingly popular form of shoulder surgery carried out on more than 21,000 people a year is almost entirely pointless, a major new study has found.

Decompression surgery, a keyhole procedure designed to remove small areas of bone and tissue around the joint, proved no better at relieving pain than a placebo in a trial across 32 hospitals.

Experts at Oxford University, who conducted the research, last night questioned why the operation had been allowed to become so commonplace despite no robust evidence supporting its use.

Meanwhile the Royal College of Surgeons, which partly funded the study, suggested the procedure should no longer be offered routinely on the NHS. The Daily Telegraph

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