Table 1.

MEDLINE search strategy used in the review

1	SHOULDER JOINT/ (13897)
2	SHOULDER/ (8870)
3	shoulder*.ti,ab. (41413)
4	exp JOINT CAPSULE/ (25623)
5	BURSA, SYNOVIAL/ or CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR/ (23509)
6	LIGAMENTS/ or LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR/ (17025)
7	subacromial bursa.ti,ab. (207)
8	1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 (107701)
9	ELBOW/ or KNEE/ or HIP/ or ELBOW JOINT/ or exp KNEE JOINT/ or HIP JOINT/ (89002)
10	8 not 9 (92176)
11	JOINT DISEASES/ or CONTRACTURE/ or exp BURSITIS/ (10137)
12	bursit*.ti,ab. (1880)
13	(adhesive and capsul*).ti,ab. (709)
14	(contracted and shoulder*).ti,ab. (79)
15	(stiff and shoulder*).ti,ab. (220)
16	(restricted and shoulder*).ti,ab. (443)
17	((“50” or fifty) and year and old and shoulder*).ti,ab. (142)
18	contracture*.ti,ab. (15710)
19	(capsular and adhes*).ti,ab. (533)
20	ARTHRALGIA/ (4808)
21	SHOULDER PAIN/ (2817)
22	PERIARTHRITIS/ (1087)
23	(frozen and shoulder*).ti,ab. (862)
24	11 or 12 or 13 or 14 or 15 or 16 or 17 or 18 or 19 or 20 or 21 or 22 or 23 (31479)
25	SHOULDER/pa, ph, pp [Pathology, Physiology, Physiopathology] (2414)
26	SHOULDER JOINT/pa, ph, pp [Pathology, Physiology, Physiopathology] (6206)
27	PHYSIOLOGY/ or NEUROPHYSIOLOGY/ (28421)
28	(pathophysiol* or patho-physiol* or physiopathol* or physio-pathol*).ti,ab. (152283)
29	physiology.ti,ab. (78959)
30	HISTOLOGY/ or HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY/ (74633)
31	(histol* or histop*).ti,ab. (520480)
32	MICROBIOLOGY/ (5837)
33	microbiolog*.ti,ab. (57683)
34	IMMUNOCHEMISTRY/ (9093)
35	IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY/ (246272)
36	immunohistochem*.ti,ab. (236072)
37	25 or 26 or 27 or 28 or 29 or 30 or 31 or 32 or 33 or 34 or 35 or 36 (1197286)
38	10 and 24 and 37 (1397)
39	limit 38 to humans (1336)

Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) <1946 to 2nd May 2014>