NCT02574000

Observational Study of Hemiplegic Shoulder Pain After Recent Stroke

Observational Study to Investigate Proportion of Patients With Hemiplegic Shoulder Pain Within 72 Hours Post-stroke and at Follow-up 8-10 Weeks Later.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 163 (actual)
• Sponsor: St George's, University of London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is an observational study to address the following questions. 1. How many people develop stroke-shoulder pain within 3 days of stroke? 2. How many people have stroke shoulder pain at 8-10 weeks after stroke? 3. Does having stroke-shoulder pain within 3 days of stroke predict the likelihood of having stroke-shoulder pain at 8-10 weeks? 4. What are the best bedside examination tests to identify stroke-shoulder pain?

Detailed description

Patients will be assessed very early after stroke (within 72 hours) and followed up 8-10 weeks later. Findings will enable planning of fully-powered randomised controlled trials of both, pain-prevention strategies and treatment.

Conditions

• Shoulder Pain
• Hemiplegia
• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	ShoulderQ which is a shoulder pain questionnaire	Questions regarding shoulder pain at rest, during movement and at night with visual analogue scales. Factors affecting shoulder pain.
OTHER	Clinical shoulder examination	Shoulder-Hand-Score (measuring pain, oedema, passive range of movement), muscle strength (using Oxford scale and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) upper limbe motor and shoulder joint palpation (recording subluxation and soft-tissue pain).

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-11-01
• Primary completion: 2016-07-01
• Completion: 2016-07-01
• First posted: 2015-10-12
• Last updated: 2016-08-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom