Study	Reason for exclusion
Anderson 1996	Population not included in this review: post‐operative shoulder surgery
Arciero 1994	Population not included in this review: all patients had sustained trauma.
Arslan 2001	Randomised controlled trial of corticosteroid injection versus combined physiotherapy and non‐steroiodal anti‐inflammatory. Not able to seperate out the effect of physiotherapy. Included in Cochrane Review of cortico‐steroid injection for shoulder disorders
Biswas 1979	Not clear if randomised, 2/3 of participants lost to follow up and no between group comparisons
Chee 1986	Population not included in this review: was neck and shoulder pain with no separately reported data.
Curtis 1999	Population not included in this review: wheelchair users not necessarily with shoulder pain. Intervention was unsupervised exercise as prevention of pain and disability
Echternach 1966	Intervention not included in this review: assessed the intervention of audioanalgesia as a way to better tolerate mobilisation, not whether mobilisation, nor audioanalgesia, was effective treatment
Gam 1998	Population not included in this review: myofascial neck and shoulder region pain
Grossi 1986	Population not included in this review: 73 patients with either lateral epicondylitis or adhesive capsulitis (numbers of each individual diagnosis not given). Not possible to seperate lateral epicondylitis and adhesive capsulitis data.
Hagberg 2000	Population not included in this review: myofascial neck and shoulder region pain
Inaba 1972	Population not included in this review: hemiplegia
Lastayo 1998	Population not included in this review: post‐operative shoulder surgery
Leandri 1990	Population not included in this review: hemiplegia
Leboeuf 1987	Population not included in this review: repetitive strain injury of entire upper limb
Livesley 1992	Population not included in this review: trauma
Lloyd‐Roberts 1959	Not randomised.
Lundberg 1979	Population not included in this review: humeral head fractures). Subjects sustained trauma and therefore excluded
Lundblad 1999	Population not included in this review: included participants with neck and shoulder complaints with data from participants with shoulder complaints not presented seperately
Melzer 1995	Not randomised
Meyer 1997	Not randomised
Morgan 1995	Is a randomised controlled trial of the use of TNS to control pain during a painful intervention for shoulder disorder, not of an intervention for the disorder.
Nash 1990	Trail of high intensity TENS compared to low intensity TENS for analgesia during hydrodilatation (distension arthrography), not as a treatment for shoulder disorder
Partridge 1990	Population not included in this review: hemiplegia
Philipson 1983	Population not included in this review: chronic myofascial syndrome
Quin 1965	Not randomised
Raab 1996	Population not included in this review: post‐operative shoulder surgery
Rahme 1998	Intervention is of surgery
Randlov 1998	Population not included in this review: myofascial neck and shoulder region pain
Ritchie 1997	Intervention is for post shoulder surgery pain relief, not treatment of shoulder disorder.
Rizk 1983	Not randomised
Speer 1996	Intervention is for post shoulder surgery pain relief, not treatment of shoulder disorder.
Spence 1995	Population not included in this review: myofascial neck and shoulder region pain
Vasseljen 1998	Population not included in this review: myofascial neck and shoulder region pain
Vecchini 1984	Capsulitis data not presented seperately. Twelve of the 24 subjects in the study suffered adhesive capsulitis, the remaining 12 with lateral epicondylitis of the elbow.
Waldburger 1992	Population not included in this review: post‐traumatic
Waling 2000	Population not included in this review: myofascial neck and shoulder region pain
Williams 1986	Population not included in this review: rheumatoid arthritis
Wolf 1996	Population not included in this review: post‐operative shoulder surgery