• Kewei Chen, Shuai Yin, Xiaodan Wang, Qianqian Lin, Huijie Duan, Zhenhua Zhang, Yiniu Chang, Yujing Gu, Mingli Wu, Nan Wu, and Chengmei Liu.
• Henan University of Chinese Medicine.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Nov 25; 99 (48): e22661e22661.

BackgroundRotator cuff tendinitis is a highly prevalent cause of shoulder pain and leads to decreased patient quality of life. Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) and ultrasound-guided needling are considered beneficial for rotator cuff tendinitis. A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing ESWT with sham-ESWT or ultrasound-guided needling in the management of pain and calcification is lacking.MethodsWe will search the following up database from its inception to August 2020 without language restriction: PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, EMBASE, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, China Biomedical Literature Database, Chinese Science Journal Database, and WangFang database. All randomized controlled trials compared the effect of ESWT and sham-ESWT or ultrasound-guided needling of rotator cuff tendinitis will be included in pain and calcification. Two researchers will operate literature retrieval, screening, information extraction, quality assessment, and data analysis independently. The analysis will be conducted using Review Manager 5.3 Software.ResultsThe findings will be submitted to a peer-reviewed publication.ConclusionThis systematic review and meta-analysis will provide high-quality evidence for the treatment of patients with rotator cuff tendinitis.Inplasy Registration NumberINPLASY202080028.

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