Effectiveness of Physiotherapy for Chronic Shoulder Pain
CompletedPhase 3NCT00415441
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether a physiotherapy program reduces pain and improves disability and quality-of-life in people with chronic shoulder pain. The main study hypotheses are that (i) A 10-week physiotherapy treatment will result in significantly greater reductions in pain and disability than placebo treatment in individuals with chronic shoulder pain (ii) Improvements in pain and disability following a 10-week physiotherapy treatment will be maintained at a 3-month follow-up.
Study details
- Official title
- Efficacy and Cost-effectiveness of Physiotherapy for Chronic Rotator Cuff Pathology
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Physiotherapy program
- Procedure: Placebo physiotherapy treatment
- Sponsor
- University of Melbourne
- Collaborators
- National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
- Start date
- 2004-03
- Primary completion
- 2008-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Australia
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * diagnosis of CRCP as evident by symptoms and signs including pain on active abduction or external rotation and positive impingement test; * symptoms of pain in shoulder for \> 3 months; * average movement pain \> 3 on a 10 cm visual analogue scale; * aged ≥ 18 years; * able to understand written and spoken English. Exclusion Criteria: * severe pain at rest, defined as \> 7 on a visual analogue scale; * global restriction of shoulder movements; * systemic inflammatory joint disease; * x-ray evidence of shoulder osteoarthritis or fracture; * calcification about the shoulder joint; * reason to suspect a complete rotator cuff rupture (eg. weakness of arm elevation, a positive "drop arm sign", a high riding humerus visible on x-ray or a complete tear on ultrasound); * previous shoulder surgery on affected arm; * physiotherapy, corticosteroid injection or hydrodilatation for shoulder in past 3 months; * commenced non-steroidal antiinflammatory medication (NSAIDs) or conservative intervention in past 2 weeks.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00415441