NCT04985370

PNE Plus Exercise Versus Exercise for Chronic Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy

Pain Neuroscience Education Plus Exercise Versus Exercise Alone in the Management of Chronic Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Suspended
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ruben Fernandez Matias · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the combined effects of pain neuroscience education plus exercise to exercise alone in the management of patients with chronic rotator cuff tendinopathy regarding pain, function, strength, kinesiophobia, and pain catastrophizing.

Conditions

• Rotator Cuff Tendinosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pain neuroscience education	Three sessions of pain neuroscience education based on explaining patients: characteristics of acute versus chronic pain, function of acute pain, how acute pain is originated within the nervous system, how acute pain progress to chronic pain, and factors that contribute to central sensitization (e.g., emotions, stress, disease and pain beliefs, behaviors regarding pain...). All the explanations will be conducted using easy-understandable examples and metaphors.
OTHER	Exercise	Progressive resistance exercise program based on isometric, concentric, eccentric, and pliometric contractions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-07-25
• Primary completion: 2021-10-01
• Completion: 2029-10-01
• First posted: 2021-08-02
• Last updated: 2022-11-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain