Co-analgesic therapy for arthroscopic supraspinatus tendon repair pain using a dietary supplement containing Boswellia serrata and Curcuma longa: a prospective randomized placebo-controlled study.

What Was Tested

Researchers studied Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal in this randomized controlled trial publication.

This was a prospective randomized trial designed to assess the analgesic effect of a dietary supplement (DS) containing Boswellia serrata and Curcuma longa in a population of subjects with full-thickness SSP tendon tear treated by arthroscopy.

Why It Was Studied

The cuff tendon that is most prone to full-thickness rotator cuff tears is the supraspinatus (SSP).

Arthroscopic SSP repair ensures good to satisfactory mid- to long-term clinical outcomes.

Who Took Part

PubMed indexes the participants as middle-aged adults, both men and women.

The primary outcome measure was subjective VAS pain.

Secondary outcomes measures were Constant-Murley score simple shoulder test, and patient global assessment (PGA) scores.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized and placebo-controlled study.

Random assignment meant chance, not the researchers, decided who got Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal and who got the comparison, which limits bias.

Some participants received a placebo instead of Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal, giving a reference point.

Patients were assessed immediately at baseline and subsequently at 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 weeks.

What Was Measured

Arthroscopic SSP repair ensures good to satisfactory mid- to long-term clinical outcomes.

PubMed files the paper under topics including Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal, Arginine, Arthroscopy, Boswellia, Collagen Type I, Collagen Type II and Curcuma.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Co-analgesia, Dietary supplements and Supraspinatus pain.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized and placebo-controlled study of Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal.

Its findings take up roughly 5 sentences of the abstract and are left out here on purpose; the source paper is the place to read them.

The publication is from 2015 (Musculoskeletal surgery), a journal based in Italy.

More context: all human trials.