How Much Relief Will Celecoxib Give in Frozen Shoulder?

A drop of 1.5/10 does not seem like much though they do say 71.4% got rid of night pain

Mod Rheumatol. 2014 Jan;24(1):144-9.
Comparative study of the clinical efficacy of the selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor celecoxib compared with loxoprofen in patients with frozen shoulder.
Ohta S, Komai O, Hanakawa H.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24261771

  • Celecoxib 100 mg BID
  • followup was only 1-2 weeks

Pain results (graphed as VAS from 0-10):

Comment – the improvement in night pain is nice but a 1.5 drop in pain is really not clinically much better.  This is where steroid injection and suprascapular nerve blocks become important.  Are Physicians that depend on pills  potentially giving inadequate care?

This entry was posted in shoulder. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published.