NCT05613998

Physiotherapy Treatment of Shoulder Rotator Cuff Tendinopathies. Global Postural Reeducation or Aerobic Exercise?

Global Postural Reeducation vs. Non-specific Therapeutic Exercise in the Treatment of Rotator Cuff Tendinopathies of the Shoulder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad Francisco de Vitoria · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to compare in participant population (patients with rotator cuff tendinopathy of the shoulder) the effect of a Global Postural Reeducation (GPR) program vs. a nonspecific therapeutic (aerobic) exercise program

Detailed description

Participants who meet the inclusion criteria will be randomly distributed between group 1 "Global Postural Reeducation (GPR)", group 2 "exercise", or group 3 "no physical therapy intervention". Group 1 participants will receive a physical therapy treatment using the GPR method for 6 weeks consisting of 1 weekly session lasting 40 min performing "frog on the ground" and "sitting" poses. Patients in this group will also perform self-postures at home daily for 10 minutes. Group 2 participants perform training for 6 weeks using non-specific aerobic exercise consisting of a daily 20-minutes walk at a speed of 4-5 km/h. Group 3 participants will not receive any physical therapy treatment and will serve as a control group.

Conditions

• Rotator Cuff Tendinosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	GPR Group	6-week treatment using the Global Postural Reeducation (GPR) method. 1 weekly session (45 min) with "frog on the ground" and "sitting" postures + daily home self-postures (10 min)
OTHER	Aerobic Exercice Group	6-week nonspecific aerobic exercise treatment. Participants will take a daily walk (20 min)

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-30
• Primary completion: 2024-12-31
• Completion: 2025-01-10
• First posted: 2022-11-14
• Last updated: 2026-01-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain