Supervised Exercise Therapy vs Home Exercises for Patients With Subacromial Impingement
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01257113 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: December 9, 2010
Last Update Posted
: June 23, 2015
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Shoulder Impingement Syndrome | Other: supervised exercise Other: homebased exercises | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 46 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | Single (Outcomes Assessor) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Is Supervised Exercise Therapy a Better Option Than Home Exercises for Patients With Subacromial Impingement When Looking at Pain and Function? |
Study Start Date : | January 2011 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 2012 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | April 2013 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: supervised exercise
The group gets 10 supervised exerciseclasses at the physiotherapy clinic in addition to homebased exercises
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Other: supervised exercise
This group will receive 10 classes of supervised exercise in the 6 weeks intervention. In this classes the patients will be with a physiotherapist that will adjust their home-exercise program and make sure they do the exercises in a good way. They will receive 4-6 exercises they shall do 3 times with 30 repetitions, 2 times every day. If necessary, they should also do stretching exercises
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Experimental: homebased exercises
The group gets 1 supervised exerciseclass before they do all their exercises at home
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Other: homebased exercises
This group will receive 1 class of supervised exercise at the beginning of the 6 weeks intervention. In this class the patients will be with a physiotherapist that will put together a home-exercise program and make sure they do the exercises in a good way. They will receive 4-6 exercises they shall do 3 times with 30 repetitions, 2 times every day. If necessary, they should also do stretching exercises
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- Pain and function 1 [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Shoulder Pain and Disability Index
- Pain and function 2 [ Time Frame: At 6 weeks ]Shoulder Pain and Disability Index
- Pain and function 3 [ Time Frame: At 6 months ]Shoulder Pain and Disability Index
- Fear avoidance 1 [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire. Modified version with questions about shoulder instead of back
- Fear avoidance 2 [ Time Frame: At 6 weeks ]Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire. Modified version with questions about shoulder instead of back.
- Quality of life 1 [ Time Frame: Baseline ]The Short-Form 36 questionnaire
- Quality of life 2 [ Time Frame: At 6 weeks ]The Short-Form 36 questionnaire
- Pain the last week [ Time Frame: Baseline and once a week for 6 weeks ]Numeric pain rating scale
- Active range of motion 1 [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Abduction, flexion, external rotation and internal rotation measured with inclinometer
- Active range of motion 2 [ Time Frame: At 6 weeks ]Abduction, flexion, external rotation and internal rotation measured with inclinometer
- Impingement tests 1 [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Hawkins test, painful arc test and isometric external rotation test is beeing conducted and scored positive or negative
- Impingement tests 2 [ Time Frame: At 6 weeks ]Hawkins test, painful arc test and isometric external rotation test is beeing conducted and scored positive or negative
- Work status 1 [ Time Frame: Baseline ]Registration of the patients work status
- Work status 2 [ Time Frame: At 6 weeks ]Registration of the patients work status
- Work status 3 [ Time Frame: At 6 months ]Registration of the patients work status
- Patient satisfaction [ Time Frame: At 6 weeks ]2 questions, one question about benefit and one about satisfaction

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Pain in one shoulder
- Had the condition for more than 12 weeks
- Pain at abduction (must be present in some part between 60 and 120 degrees)
- Pain/ weakness in isometric external rotation
- Positive Hawkins test
Exclusion Criteria:
- Instability
- Labral pathology
- Acromioclavicular joint (AC-joint) pathology
- Complete rupture in the rotatorcuff
- Glenohumeral osteoarthritis
- Previously operated on current shoulder
- The pain comes from neck pathology
- Rheumatoid arthritis or other serious physical or mental illness
- Lack of Norwegian language
- Unable to start

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01257113
Norway | |
Tverrfaglig Poliklinikk, rygg-nakke-skulder. Fys.Med. og rehab., St.Olavs Hospital | |
Trondheim, Norway, 7006 |
Principal Investigator: | Ottar Vasseljen, Dr.Philos | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Publications of Results:
Responsible Party: | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01257113 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
2010/2591 |
First Posted: | December 9, 2010 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | June 23, 2015 |
Last Verified: | June 2015 |
Keywords provided by Norwegian University of Science and Technology:
shoulder pain shoulder impingement rotatorcuff pathology supervised exercise homebased exercise |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Shoulder Impingement Syndrome Joint Diseases Musculoskeletal Diseases Shoulder Injuries Wounds and Injuries |