The authors studied remote results of treatment of 157 patients with degenerative damages of the rotary-bicepital complex on the basis of the 3rd traumatologic and orthopedic department of the Minsk city clinical hospital № 6 from 2012 to 2017 using the proposed approaches. In the first group, patients received traditional treatment with the use of hormonal drugs. In the second group, a course of periarticular injections was performed using low-molecular sodium hyaluronate under ultrasound control. Conservative treatment of patients using the approaches suggested by the authors made it possible to statistically reliably achieve an improvement in the subjective well-being of patients and an objective restoration of the function of the shoulder joint. It is determined that the introduction of drugs under ultrasound in the damaged sector of the rotary-bicepital complex is a necessary part of the treatment process in patients with degenerative damages of the rotary-bicepital complex, in order to avoid complications.
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