NCT03498859

Efficacy of Physiotherapist-supervised Rehabilitation After Proximal Humerus Fracture

Efficacy of Physiotherapist-supervised Rehabilitation After Two-part Proximal Humerus Fractures Treated Non-operatively. A Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Aarhus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigates the efficacy of physiotherapist-supervised training once per week during 10 weeks compared to home-based training during 10 weeks, after proksimal humerus fracture.

Detailed description

Proximal humerus fracture is the third most common fracture in elderly people after hip and colles fracture, and are often caused by fall and osteoporosis. These fractures are highly related to morbidity and mortality among elderly people and consumes considerably health care resources. More than 70% of the proximal humerus fracture patients are over 60 years of age and 75% are female. Only sparse evidence reveals to what extend the patients need rehabilitation and how it should be implemented in the treatment strategy. In Denmark as well as in Finland the rehabilitation after proximal humerus fractures takes place in local centers in the municipalities, and the rehabilitation offered to the patients varies significantly. Currently in Denmark there are no national clinical guidelines to support the rehabilitation strategy.

Conditions

• Proximal Humeral Fracture

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physiotherapist-supervised training	The intervention is physiotherapist-supervised training once per week during 10 weeks.
OTHER	Home-based training	The intervention is home-based training during 10 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-24
• Primary completion: 2022-01-25
• Completion: 2022-01-25
• First posted: 2018-04-17
• Last updated: 2023-01-05

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: Denmark, Norway