What helps impingement syndrome?

Sometimes, anti-inflammatory drugs, injections or physiotherapeutic measures can be helpful in the early stage. However, in cases of significant constriction, there is also the danger that the physiotherapeutic loading could increase the problem or even lead to tears in the rotator cuff.

Conservative arthroscopic loosening of adhesions

Today, good results are often possible with the use of arthroscopy in impingement syndrome. In this way, for example, a reliable release of the inflamed, adherent bursa under the acromion and a precise removal of the bony constriction is possible, so that a good sliding function is already present after a few weeks.

Note. Although arthroscopic procedures are a conservative therapeutic alternative in many diseases of the shoulders today, this possibility often only comes into consideration at a relatively late stage. In some cases, further tears to the rotator cuff tendons will have already occurred, which can often be prevented by a timely intervention.