The Effect of Controlled Feedback on the Rehabilitation of Individuals With Disability Due to Stiff Shoulder Following Trauma

Isabella Shvartz

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Fracture Humerus

Treatments

Other: Biofeedback via motion capture

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03196674

Shoulder- HMO-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will compare the effect of manipulated vs. non-manipulated feedback during the rehabilitation of individuals with disability due to stiff shoulder following multiple trauma. This will be accomplished using the state-of-the-art real-time motion capture technology.

Full description

In this intervention, comparative study, 30 individuals with stiff shoulder following fracture to the proximal humerus (4 weeks to 6 months following the injury) will be treated at the Gait and Motion Laboratory at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Each subject will undergo a 12-session treatment (2-3 times a week, 30 minutes per session). In each session, reflective markers will be placed on the upper or lower body of the patient. Ten fast infra-red cameras will detect the movement of the patient and provide real-time feedback when obtaining a correct movement pattern, as instructed by the therapist, pretrial. The motion capture system will provide visual and auditory feedback of success, via a large screen, located on the wall. This could be manipulated so that the feedback is provided for a slightly higher range than instructed by the therapist.

The subjects will be randomly divided into two groups. One group will receive the non-manipulated feedback treatment for 6 sessions and then the manipulated feedback treatment for the remaining 6 sessions and vice versa for the second group. The shoulder passive and active range of motions, pain and activity levels will be tested 3 times: at baseline, following 6 and 12 sessions. A satisfactory questionnaire will be filled out by each patient twice, following 6 and 12 sessions.

The study will test for no differences in the overall progress of the patients during the 12-session rehabilitation period. The study will further test for differences in all outcome measures between the manipulated and non-manipulated treatment sessions.

Enrollment

30 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 60 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Restricted shoulder motion (up to 90 degrees in abduction and flexion) following proximal humerus fracture, 4 weeks to 6 months following injury, without rotatory cuff tear
Normal or corrected eyesight and hearing.

Exclusion criteria