Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation as an Alternative to Outpatient Physiotherapy in the 1 Month After Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair Surgery

Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Rotator Cuff Injuries

Treatments: Procedure: Experimental Treatment; Procedure: Standard Treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06744218

Teleriab-Cuffia

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study aims to verify whether telerehabilitation as an alternative to in-person treatment (both conducted by a physiotherapist) can be a valid option in terms of pain, recovery of the rom, shoulder functionality compared to those provided by therapy alone. face-to-face rehabilitation in patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repair surgery.

Enrollment: 46 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male or female patients aged between 40 and 70 years
• Patients undergoing arthroscopic repair surgery of the rotator cuff tendons
• Start of outpatient treatment within 7 days of discharge from the Orthopedic Department of the Argenta and Delta hospitals
• Continuation of rehabilitation care at the IOR Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine service in Argenta or at the Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Medicine service of the Delta Hospital.
• Patients who have provided informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Previous shoulder surgeries
• difficulty understanding the Italian language/language barrier
• unavailability of IT devices or stable wi-fi connection by the patient

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Standard Treatment

experimental

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Experimental Treatment