NCT04440046

Real Versus Sham Manual Therapy for RCRSP

Real Versus Sham Manual Therapy in Addition to Therapeutic Exercise in the Treatment of Rotator Cuff Related Shoulder Pain: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alcala · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A convenience sample of subjects with RCRSP recruited through announcements at the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla will be treated with an exercise program with sham or real manual therapy for 5 weeks. The hypothesis of the present study is that the addition of manual therapy to a therapeutic exercise program produces better benefits in comparison to the same exercise program with sham manual therapy procedures in the management of patients with RCRSP.

Detailed description

The objective of this study is to demonstrate that the combination of manual therapy and therapeutic exercise achieves better results in the management of the patient with shoulder pain. For this, manual therapy techniques in the thoracic region and in the shoulder together with a therapeutic exercise program will be applied. The investigators will compare this intervention protocol with placebo manual therapy techniques and the same therapeutic exercise protocol.

Conditions

• Shoulder Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Manual therapy thoracic spine	Manual therapy mobilization directed to the costovertebral joint.
OTHER	Manual therapy glenohumeral joint	Manual therapy mobilization directed to the glenohumeral joint.
OTHER	Sham thoracic manual therapy	Sham manual therapy directed to the costovertebral joint.
OTHER	Sham glenohumeral manual therapy	Sham manual therapy directed to the glenohumeral joint.
OTHER	Therapeutic exercise	Therapeutic exercise program consisting on isometric exercise with progressive load.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-15
• Primary completion: 2021-04-18
• Completion: 2021-04-18
• First posted: 2020-06-19
• Last updated: 2021-06-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain