Effectiveness of Action Observation and Motor Imagery Intervention Plus Exercise for Chronic Painful Shoulder in Primary Care
Not yet recruitingNot applicableNCT04118439
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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)
Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of an action observation program (OA) and motor imagery (MI) -integrated into routine physiotherapy practice- to reduce disability associated with chronic shoulder pain in primary care, after 8 weeks of intervention and with follow-ups at 3 and 6 months with blind evaluation of the response variable. Design: randomized controlled clinical trial. Population: Patients with chronic shoulder pain diagnosed and referred by their family doctors to the physiotherapy service will be included. Intervention: Group: experimental: MI+OA+ multicomponent exercises or control group: multicomponent exercises. 100 patients (50 per group) will be included. Variables: sociodemographic and clinical variables will be collected. Primary variable: Disability related to pain in the shoulder region; Secondary variables: Intensity of perceived pain, Shoulder Joint Range of Motion, Hand and shoulder strength, Fear of movement, Catastrophizing in the face of pain, Quality of life of patients, Global Perception of Change, and adherence to exercise. Statistical analysis: Descriptive. Main effectiveness analysis by intention to treat comparing the difference between groups in the average disability for the different intervention times. Multivariate analysis considers the influence of psychological variables on pain and on the therapeutic response. An analysis segmented by sex will be carried out, and the influence of psychological variables on pain and on the therapeutic response will be analyzed.
Study details
- Official title
- Effectiveness of an Exercise Program Combined With Action Observation and Motor Imagery in Patients With Chronic Shoulder Pain in Primary Care. A Controlled Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Motor Imaginery and Action Observation
- Sponsor
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
- Start date
- 2025-06
- Primary completion
- 2026-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 75 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: 1. who have been diagnosed and referred by the family physician to physiotherapy units in primary care by a process of muscular origin in the shoulder region, 2. who have not received physiotherapy treatment by the same process in the last 6 months. Exclusion Criteria: 1. suffer from systemic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, diagnosed neurological disease, lupus erythematosus, or cancer. 2. History of shoulder surgery, 3. patients with psychiatric pathologies or personality disorders; 4. patients with severe mobility limitation compatible with the diagnosis of frozen shoulder, 5) patients diagnosed with type II diabetes, 6\) patients with little knowledge of Spanish language spoken or written and 7) reproduction of symptoms during active movements of the cervical spine or during palpation of the cervical or thoracic region.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04118439