Frozen Shoulder

Filip Struyf is a professor at the department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy of the University of Antwerp, Belgium. At the University, he coordinates research within the field of musculoskeletal disorders, more specifically in frozen shoulder. Filip is editor of the Dutch/Flemish journal of Sports Medicine and co-founder and board member of the Flemish Shoulder Network. He has published over 90 PubMed cited articles, contributed to several shoulder books, and teaches courses on shoulder assessment and rehabilitation at both national and international level. Filip was recently invited by the well-respected journal “Nature Reviews Disease Primers” to write an article on frozen shoulder. Finally, Filip combines his academic work with the assessment and treatment of patients with shoulder pain in a private clinical practice. Recently, Filip was awarded as world leading expert in shoulder pain according to Expertscape (http://expertscape.com/ex/shoulder+pain).

Part 1: What is a Frozen Shoulder?
1. A patient story living with a frozen shoulder
2. Living with a frozen shoulder
3. Pathophysiology
4. Risk factors for frozen shoulder
5. Definition of a frozen shoulder

Part 2: Diagnosis
6. Epidemiology
7. Clinical assessment
8. Differential diagnosis
9. Imaging in frozen shoulder
10. Prognosis of frozen shoulder

Part 3: Management of Frozen Shoulder
11. Pharmacotherapeutic options
12. Physiotherapeutic management
13. Surgical indications, options, and techniques
14. Other treatment options
15. Post-operative physiotherapy management

Part 4: Future perspectives
16. The role of the central nervous system
17. The use of telemedicine
18. The effect of lifestyle (nutrition, sleep, psychosocial…) on shoulder pain
19. The inclusion of Yoga and Tai Chi in the management of frozen shoulder
20. Novel insights in pharmacotherapeutics

Part 5: Case presentations
21. Case presentation 1 - General practitioner
22. Case presentation 2 - physiotherapy
23. Case presentation 3 - physiotherapy
24. Case presentation 4 - orthopedic surgery
25. Case presentation 5 - orthopedic surgery