NCT04553289

Exercise Into Pain in Subacromial Shoulder Pain

Exercise Into Pain in Subacromial Shoulder Pain: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 43 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universiteit Antwerpen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the randomized clinical trial is to investigate if "exercising into pain" gives better results in term of clinical outcomes compared to a non-painful exercise program.

Detailed description

Exercise therapy is the first choice of treatment in the treatment of subacromial shoulder pain (SSP). Guidelines suggest exercise therapy for at least three months and research underlines the importance of progressive loaded exercise therapy at high dosage. However, it is not clear which is the best type of exercise and if pain should be provoked or avoided during exercise. Recent research found that painful exercises are beneficial in short term on pain and function in patients with different kinds of chronic musculoskeletal pain. The aim is to investigate if one painful exercise can give better and faster results in the management of SSP than non-painful program.

Conditions

• Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	exercising into pain	the intervention consists in 4 strength exercises: one will be performed into pain (ranging between 4 and 7 on NPRS scale) and the rest between 0 adn 2 on a NPRS scale
OTHER	exercising with no/slight pain	the intervention consists in 4 strength exercises and all of them will be performed in no pain/slight pain (between 0 and 2 on NPRS scale)

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-30
• Primary completion: 2022-12-15
• Completion: 2022-12-15
• First posted: 2020-09-17
• Last updated: 2024-08-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium