Shoulder Training: Muscle Recruitment Patterns and the Effect of an Exercise Program

University Ghent

Status: Completed

Conditions: Shoulder Impingement

Treatments: Procedure: Exercise training program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00774956

2008/432

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the muscle recruitment pattern and the effect of a 6 week shoulder exercise training program in healthy persons and subjects with shoulder impingement

Enrollment: 77 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• current reported history of shoulder pain localised at the glenohumeral joint diagnosed as impingement
• two positive shoulder impingement tests
• pain reproduction during two of three additional categories of clinical tests
• the subject is able to perform pain-free arm elevations with a resistance of 0.5 kg

Exclusion criteria

• cervical and periscapular pain
• positive labral injury tests
• history of shoulder surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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77 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Subject with shoulder impingement

Treatment:

Procedure: Exercise training program

Procedure: Exercise training program

2

Active Comparator group

Description:

Healthy persons

Treatment:

Procedure: Exercise training program

Procedure: Exercise training program