Effect of Postoperative Immobilization on Healing After Rotator Cuff Arthroscopic Repair

Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Rotator Cuff Tear

Treatments: Procedure: Postoperative early passive motion; Other: Sling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01502098

CEPI:1780

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to establish whether one month postoperative immobilization compared early passive motion after rotator cuff arthroscopic repair in small or medium ruptures with double row technique has any healing significance.

Enrollment: 114 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients skeletally mature (older 18 years old)
• Small or medium rupture of rotator cuff
• Repaired with arthroscopic double row technique

Exclusion criteria

• Impossibility to perform MRI (claustrophobic, pacemaker, heart or brain metallic implants)
• AC arthritis with mumford procedure
• Smokers
• Diabetes
• Postoperative complication (severe pain, thrombosis, infection)
• Psychiatric disorder

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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114 participants in 2 patient groups

Early passive motion

Active Comparator group

Description:

Pendulum exercises starting on the first postoperative day. The patients are instructed to commence passive range-of-motion exercises in the plane of the scapula with the assistance with the contralateral limb. Active motion exercises were not permitted until four weeks after surgery.

Treatment:

Procedure: Postoperative early passive motion

Immobilization

No Intervention group

Description:

Immobilization with sling during a month. Pendulum exercises starting on the fourth postoperative week. The patients are instructed to commence passive range-of-motion exercises in the plane of the scapula with the assistance with the contralateral limb. Active motion exercises.

Treatment:

Other: Sling