Digital Therapy in Shoulder Rehabilitation.

University of Padova

Status: Completed

Conditions: Shoulder Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: PG; Behavioral: CTRL

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05230056

PLYDT

Details and patient eligibility

About

Digital therapy may provides real time visual feedbacks. Instrumented devices objectively quantify the patient's performance during rehabilitation and thus could be helpful for the personalization of the exercises.

The interactive ball of this trial allows measuring both movement and pressure applied on it. Therefore, the objectives of this study are: (i) to evaluate whether the use of a novel digital therapy gaming system was therapeutically relevant during shoulder rehabilitation; (ii) to understand whether the device was effective in improving patients' engagement in comparison to a control non-gaming rehabilitation program.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• impingement syndrome, capsulitis, tendon injuries, degenerative joint or tendon pathologies
• pain between 2/10 and 8/10 on a visual analogue scale

Exclusion criteria

• post-surgical patients
• inability to perform active exercises
• peripheral neurological deficits
• cervical-brachialgia
• algodystrophy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 2 patient groups

PG

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: PG

CTRL

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: CTRL