Radial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (rESWT) Treatment of Subacromial Shoulder Pain

University of Oslo (UIO)

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: Shoulder Impingement Syndrome; Subacromial Shoulder Pain

Treatments: Device: Radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01441830

2011/5347

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether rESWT (radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy) combined with supervised exercises will improve function and reduce pain in subacromial shoulder pain compared with supervised exercises alone.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Dysfunction or pain on abduction
• Pain on one of two isometric tests (abduction or external rotation)
• Positive Hawkins sign
• Normal passive glenohumeral range of motion

Exclusion criteria

• Previous surgery on affected shoulder
• Instability
• Total rupture of the rotator cuff (evaluated clinically or by US)
• Clinical signs of a cervical syndrome
• Infection in the area
• Exclusion criteria cont.
• Patients considered unable to fill out questionnaires or to go through the treatment
• Use of anticoagulant drugs or bleeding disorder
• Pregnancy
• Previous experience of one of the study interventions
• Corticosteroid injection in the past 6 weeks.
• SPADI < 20

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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150 participants in 2 patient groups

sham rESWT

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy

rESWT

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy