NCT00415441

Effectiveness of Physiotherapy for Chronic Shoulder Pain

Efficacy and Cost-effectiveness of Physiotherapy for Chronic Rotator Cuff Pathology

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Melbourne · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a physiotherapy program reduces pain and improves disability and quality-of-life in people with chronic shoulder pain. The main study hypotheses are that (i) A 10-week physiotherapy treatment will result in significantly greater reductions in pain and disability than placebo treatment in individuals with chronic shoulder pain (ii) Improvements in pain and disability following a 10-week physiotherapy treatment will be maintained at a 3-month follow-up.

Detailed description

Chronic rotator cuff pathology (CRCP) is a common cause of musculoskeletal morbidity in the community. Physiotherapy is often the first line of management for this condition. However, the effectiveness of physiotherapy for CRCP has not been well studied. Thus this project primarily aims to investigate the effect of a multimodality physiotherapy program to treat CRCP where effect is measured in terms of pain, disability and health-related quality of life. The secondary aim is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of physiotherapy as a treatment for CRCP. Comparison: physiotherapy program comprising stretches, exercises, manual techniques versus placebo physiotherapy

Conditions

• Shoulder Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Physiotherapy program
PROCEDURE	Placebo physiotherapy treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-03-01
• Primary completion: 2008-06-01
• Completion: 2008-09-01
• First posted: 2006-12-22
• Last updated: 2013-01-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia