Early Range of Motion Following Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair

UConn Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rotator Cuff Disease

Treatments: Other: Early motion; Other: Standard motion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00845715

08-311-3

DF08-13

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a difference in the quality of life, ability to return to functioning (back to everyday life), the amount of experienced pain in patients who immediately move their shoulder versus patient who delay moving their shoulder after arthroscopic rotator cuff repair. We are also interested in whether there is a difference in the healing rates between these two groups.

Enrollment: 73 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients who are between 18 years and 70 years of age
• full thickness rotator cuff tear on ultrasound and MRI
• failed conservative management

Exclusion criteria

• concomitant pathology including massive rotator cuff tears that extend into the subscapularis or the teres minor and all co-existing labral pathology
• history of neuromuscular or degenerative disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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73 participants in 2 patient groups

Early motion

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Early motion

Standard motion

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Standard motion