NCT03055117

Individual Versus Group-based Exercise Rehabilitation for Shoulder Disorders: a Randomised Controlled Trial

Individual Versus Group-based Exercise Rehabilitation for Shoulder Disorders

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 180 (actual)
• Sponsor: Regional Hospital West Jutland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Degenerative shoulder disorders are frequent in the Danish population and often cause disability and sick leave. After hospital discharge patients are often referred to physiotherapy rehabilitation as part of the treatment, and it is often assumed that one-on-one sessions will yield better results than group-based sessions, because individual needs can be better meet and targeted The project aims to evaluate the effect and cost-effectiveness of group- based exercise rehabilitation as compared to individual exercise rehabilitation in patients with degenerative shoulder disorders. .

Detailed description

The study is a three-armed controlled randomized trial in which a total of 180 patients referred to the municipal rehabilitation after hospital treatment due to shoulder disorders in 6 municipalities in Region Midtjylland expected to participate. Patients will be allocated to either 1) Group-based rehabilitation 2) Individual rehabilitation or 3) Home exercise.

Conditions

• Shoulder Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Group-based exercise rehabilitation	Group- based physiotherapy-led exercise rehabilitation
BEHAVIORAL	Individual exercise rehabilitation	Individual physiotherapy-led exercise rehabilitation
BEHAVIORAL	Home exercise	Supervised home exercise

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-16
• Primary completion: 2018-08-27
• Completion: 2018-08-27
• First posted: 2017-02-16
• Last updated: 2019-03-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark