Clinical trial NCT03373799: Effectiveness of Video-Based Rehabilitation Program on Pain, Functionality and Quality of Life in the Treatment of Rotator Cuff Tears
Official title: Effectiveness of Video-Based Rehabilitation Program on Pain, Functionality and Quality of Life in the Treatment of Rotator Cuff Tears
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Rotator Cuff Tear
Pain, Shoulder
Keywords: rotator cuff
physiotherapy
video-based rehabilitation
exercise
Lead sponsor: Istanbul University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-12-14
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 40
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of the video-based rehabilitation program on pain, functionality and quality of life in the conservative treatment of partial tears of the rotator cuff whether it was as successful as the physiotherapist-supervised rehabilitation program.

Detailed description: In our study a common exercise program, which can be used in conservative treatment of a partial rotator cuff tear, is applied with two different methods; a video-based rehabilitation program and physiotherapist-supervised rehabilitation program. Video-based rehabilitation program was developed to investigate whether this program is effective on pain, functionality and quality of life and as successful as a physiotherapist-supervised rehabilitation program.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Forty years of age or older patients that had been diagnosed for a partial rotator cuff tear that was unrelated to trauma by a specialist orthopedist with MRI and physical examination and no other shoulder problems on the diagnosed shoulder were included into this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients that had been diagnosed for a full-thickness or massive rotator cuff tear, operated previously, had frozen shoulder or glenohumeral instability
* Younger than 40-year-old, and athletic patients with acute tear symptom were excluded from this study.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Shoulder Range of Motion (ROM)
timeFrame: Shoulder range of motion evaluation was performed first time at baseline and second time after 6 weeks rehabilitation program. After treatment "change" was assessed.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)
timeFrame: Evaluation was performed before treatment and after 6 weeks rehabilitation program. Patients were asked to evaluate their pain status with a 10-point scale and high scores are positively correlated with pain.
measure: ASES (The American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Standardized Shoulder Assessment) Form
timeFrame: Evaluation was performed before treatment and after 6 weeks rehabilitation program.
measure: Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) Questionnaire
timeFrame: Evaluation was performed before treatment and after 6 weeks rehabilitation program.
measure: Short Form 12 (SF-12)
timeFrame: Evaluation was performed before treatment and after 6 weeks rehabilitation program.
measure: Global Rating of Change (GRC) Scale
timeFrame: Evaluation was performed after 6 weeks rehabilitation program.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Istanbul University
state: Bakırkoy
Study officials:
affiliation: Istanbul University
name: Ezgi Türkmen
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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