Physiotherapy Treatment of Shoulder Rotator Cuff Tendinopathies. Global Postural Reeducation or Aerobic Exercise?

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rotator Cuff Tendinosis

Treatments: Other: GPR Group; Other: Aerobic Exercice Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05613998

RPGEI

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare in participant population (patients with rotator cuff tendinopathy of the shoulder) the effect of a Global Postural Reeducation (GPR) program vs. a nonspecific therapeutic (aerobic) exercise program

Full description

Participants who meet the inclusion criteria will be randomly distributed between group 1 "Global Postural Reeducation (GPR)", group 2 "exercise", or group 3 "no physical therapy intervention".

Group 1 participants will receive a physical therapy treatment using the GPR method for 6 weeks consisting of 1 weekly session lasting 40 min performing "frog on the ground" and "sitting" poses. Patients in this group will also perform self-postures at home daily for 10 minutes.

Group 2 participants perform training for 6 weeks using non-specific aerobic exercise consisting of a daily 20-minutes walk at a speed of 4-5 km/h.

Group 3 participants will not receive any physical therapy treatment and will serve as a control group.

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Shoulder pain with duration of at least 3 months
• Positive painful arc test during abduction
• At least one positive of the following tests: Hawkins-Kennedy test, Neer's sig, empty can test, drop arm or lift-off test

Exclusion criteria

• Cervical radiculopathy
• Moderate or severe degenerative arthropathy
• Complete rotator cuff tear
• History of shoulder or neck surgery
• History of shoulder fractures or dislocation
• Frozen shoulder or adhesive capsulitis
• Previous interventions with steroid injections or physiotherapy 2 months before the start of the program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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66 participants in 3 patient groups

Group 1. Global Postural Reeducation (GPR) intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Patients who will receive the Global Postural Reeducation (GPR) treatment protocol

Treatment:

Other: GPR Group

Group 2. Non-specific Aerobic exercice intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Patients who will receive the non-specific aerobic exercise treatment protocol

Treatment:

Other: Aerobic Exercice Group

Group 3. No physiotherapy intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients who will not receive physiotherapy treatment