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Objective To study the clinical curative effect of small needle knife combined with manipulation on adhesive capsulitis.Methods Totally 120 adhesive capsulitis patients treated from March 2014 to November 2015 were enrolled in the study,and divided into a treatment group and a control group randomly and equally.The patients in the treatment group were treated with small needle knife combined with manipulation,and the ones in the control group took anti-inflammatory analgesics orally.The changes of shoulder joint pain and function scores as well as the clinical effects were observed and compared in the two groups.Results The treatment group behaved significantly better than the control group in the indexes of shoulder pain,pressing pain,nyctalgia,internal and external rotation,adduction,abduction and etc (P＜0.05).The total effective rate was 93.3％ in the treatment group,which was obviously higher than that (68.3％) in the control group (P＜0.05).Conclusion The curative effect of combined manipulation and small needle knife gains advantages over oral antiinflammatory analgesics when used to treat adhesive capsulitis patients,and thus is worthy promoting practically.