PNE Plus Exercise Versus Exercise for Chronic Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy

Ruben Fernandez Matias

Status: Suspended

Conditions: Rotator Cuff Tendinosis

Treatments: Other: Pain neuroscience education; Other: Exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04985370

2020/58

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the combined effects of pain neuroscience education plus exercise to exercise alone in the management of patients with chronic rotator cuff tendinopathy regarding pain, function, strength, kinesiophobia, and pain catastrophizing.

Enrollment: 52 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Shoulder pain due to rotator cuff tendinopathy lasting more than 6 months.
• Internal Rotation Resisted Strength Test positive.
• Test Item Cluster (Hawkins-Kennedy, painful arc, and infraspinatus test) positive.

Exclusion criteria

• History of: tumors, metastasis, osteoporosis, shoulder fractures, shoulder luxation and/or instability, previous shoulder surgery, cervical radiculopathy, full-thickness rotator cuff tears, glenohumeral joint degeneration, inflammatory arthropathy, acromioclavicular joint arthrosis, and rotator cuff calcifications.
• Being treated by other physical therapy or medical treatment for their shoulder pain at the time of recruitment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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52 participants in 2 patient groups

Pain neuroscience education plus exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Three sessions of pain neuroscience education plus exercise.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise

Other: Pain neuroscience education

Exercise alone

Active Comparator group

Description:

Exercise alone without pain neuroscience education.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise