PREreview del Shouldering our Way into a More Meaningful Research Agenda for Atraumatic Shoulder Pain: A Priority Setting Study
- Publicado
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.19198837
- Licencia
- CC BY 4.0
Short Summary of Main Findings In this 2024 priority-setting study (preprint August 2024; now published in Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy 2025), researchers used a modified James Lind Alliance approach involving 297 stakeholders (mostly people with atraumatic shoulder pain, plus healthcare practitioners and a few relatives). Participants submitted 1,080 research questions, which were prioritized through surveys and workshops. The final top 10 research priorities for atraumatic shoulder pain (also called subacromial pain syndrome/rotator cuff-related pain) were established. The highest-ranked questions focused on:
Translating best available evidence into clinical practice,
Preventing shoulder pain,
Identifying which patients benefit from surgery. Other priorities likely included optimal exercise/rehabilitation strategies, long-term outcomes, and patient-centered care.
How This Work Has Moved the Field Forward It is one of the first large-scale, patient- and stakeholder-driven priority-setting partnerships specifically for atraumatic shoulder pain in a Danish context (with international collaborators). By centering the voices of people living with the condition, it shifts the research agenda away from researcher-driven topics toward more meaningful, clinically relevant, and implementation-focused questions, guiding future funding, trials, and guidelines in shoulder rehabilitation and orthopedics.
Major Issues
Still listed as a preprint on medRxiv (though now fully peer-reviewed and published in JOSPT in 2025).
Primarily Danish participants; generalizability to other countries/healthcare systems may be limited.
Priority-setting is inherently subjective and consensus-based; no new empirical data on treatments or outcomes.
Minor Issues
Title is creative/punny but somewhat informal for a scientific paper.
Detailed top-10 list and exact ranking beyond the top 3 not fully elaborated in all summaries.
Workshops conducted virtually, which may have influenced participation dynamics.
Competing interests
The author declares that they have no competing interests.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The author declares that they did not use generative AI to come up with new ideas for their review.