Freezing shoulders enjoy steroids, PRP not so much [3m]

A new trial from Taiwan with a respectable design and a believable result has compared platelet-rich plasma (PRP), corticosteroids (CS), and a saline placebo for shoulders in the agonizing freezing stage of frozen shoulder . Steroids won handily, and that’s worth knowing — but I see this study as more of a bad news story for PRP than good news for steroids. Fashionable, fancy PRP couldn’t even…