Clinical trial NCT02541279: Effectiveness of a Group Intervention for the Treatment of Shoulder Pathologies
Official title: Effectiveness of a Group Intervention for the Treatment of Shoulder Pathologies
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Shoulder Pain
Lead sponsor: Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Hospital Universitario San Juan de Alicante
First posted: 2015-09-04
Enrollment: 76
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 45
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The investigators determined the effectiveness of a group intervention for the treatment of shoulder pathologies.

Detailed description: The investigators performed a two-armed prospective clinical trial study, analyzing a sample formed by 76 patients with shoulder pain. The patients were allocated to one group randomly (intervention or control group). The data was obtained in the San Juan de Alicante Hospital between November 2014 and July 2015.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

-Patients who came to the Rehabilitation Service of the San Juan de Alicante Hospital between November 2014 and July 2015 with one of the diagnosed diseases indicated in the 726.10 ICD-9-CM code (nontraumatic rotator cuff tear, bursitis, tendinitis, and medical diagnostics impingement syndrome of any severity depending stadiums Neer (1990) unilateral or bilateral joint balance with free or minimally limited internal rotation).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who cannot perform the exercises correctly (example: psychiatry disorders)
* Patients with Shoulder surgery
* Patients whose shoulder pain is above 7 according VAS pain.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Constant Murley Test
timeFrame: before/after intervention ( 6 weeks)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Quick-DASH Test
timeFrame: before/after intervention ( 6 weeks)
measure: Pain NRS (numeric rating scale)
timeFrame: before/after intervention ( 6 weeks)
measure: Measurement of the average force
timeFrame: before/after intervention ( 6 weeks)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: San Juan
country: Spain
facility: Miguel Hernández de Elche
state: Alicante
Study officials:
affiliation: Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Alicante Spain
name: M Rosario Asensio Garcia, Phd
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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