Supervised Exercise Therapy vs Home Exercises for Patients With Subacromial Impingement

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

Treatments: Other: supervised exercise; Other: homebased exercises

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01257113

2010/2591

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether there are any difference between supervised exercise therapy and homebased exercise when looking at pain and function for patients with shoulder pain.

Full description

Shoulder pain is common in the population. Various treatment modalities are used. According to the literature, it is equally good results for home exercises and for guided exercise therapy. The purpose of this study is to look at this again and determine whether there are any difference between supervised exercise therapy and homebased exercise when looking at pain and function for patients with subacromial impingement.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pain in one shoulder
• Had the condition for more than 12 weeks
• Pain at abduction (must be present in some part between 60 and 120 degrees)
• Pain/ weakness in isometric external rotation
• Positive Hawkins test

Exclusion criteria

• Instability
• Labral pathology
• Acromioclavicular joint (AC-joint) pathology
• Complete rupture in the rotatorcuff
• Glenohumeral osteoarthritis
• Previously operated on current shoulder
• The pain comes from neck pathology
• Rheumatoid arthritis or other serious physical or mental illness
• Lack of Norwegian language
• Unable to start

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

supervised exercise

Experimental group

Description:

The group gets 10 supervised exerciseclasses at the physiotherapy clinic in addition to homebased exercises

Treatment:

Other: supervised exercise

homebased exercises

Experimental group

Description:

The group gets 1 supervised exerciseclass before they do all their exercises at home

Treatment:

Other: homebased exercises