The Global Shoulder Concept (GSC) Method Versus Classic Physical Therapy for Shoulder Tendinitis

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Shoulder

Tendinopathy

Treatments

Procedure: GSC physical therapy

Procedure: Standard physical therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01544244

PHRIP/2011/DR-03

2011-A01168-33 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate the superiority of the CGE physical therapy protocol versus a standard physical therapy protocol of the shoulder by measuring the following after 1 month of physical therapy: the FI2S score including validated measures of pain, glenohumeral joint range of motion in the three planes, the ability to perform certain everyday activities and the strength of forward elevation measured with a dynamometer.

Full description

Secondary objectives:

To study the evolution of passive glenohumeral range of motion
To study the evolution of the global range of passive and active motion for each method used
To evaluate functional recovery (DASH)
To evaluate the impact on quality of life (SF36)
To study the difference in visual analog scale scores for pain during physical therapy sessions
Compare the two methods/groups after three months.

Enrollment

40 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 70 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

The patient must have given his/her informed and signed consent
The patient must be insured or beneficiary of a health insurance plan
painful, chronic tendinopathy (more than 3 months) of the rotator cuff, confirmed by MRI

Exclusion criteria

The patient is pregnant or breastfeeding
Any emergency situation
Non-mechanical tendinopathies (metabolic, neurological, capsulitis, reflex sympathetic dystrophy) and tendon surgery (tendon surgery and acromioplasty)