Margit Kooijman

Contents Chapter 1 General introduction 11 Chapter 2 Patients with shoulder syndromes in general and physiotherapy practice: an observational study 23 Chapter 3 Physiotherapist management of patients with shoulder pain in comparison with general practitioner care – a vignette study 37 Chapter 4 One in six physiotherapy practices in primary care offer musculoskeletal ultrasound – an explorative survey 55 Chapter 5 Pain intensity, neck pain and longer duration of complaints predict poorer outcome in patients with shoulder pain – systematic review 71 Chapter 6 Do therapist effects determine outcome in patients with shoulder pain in a primary care physiotherapy setting? 99 Chapter 7 General discussion 115 Summary 129 Samenvatting 135 About the author 141