Digital Versus Conventional Physical Therapy for Chronic Shoulder Tendinopathy
CompletedNot applicableNCT04636528
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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)
This is a single-center, prospective, randomised, controlled study, with two parallel groups, designed to assess the clinical impact of a digital exercise program against conventional rehabilitation for shoulder tendonitis. The hypothesis is that all the clinical outcomes measured will significantly improve after the program, and patients using this novel system will attain at least the same outcomes than the ones attained by the conventional PT group.
Study details
- Official title
- Digital Care Program for Chronic Shoulder Tendinopathy Versus Conventional Physical Therapy: a Prospective, Randomized Controlled Study
- Conditions
- Musculoskeletal Pain
- Chronic Shoulder Pain
- Shoulder Tendinopathy
- Interventions
- Device: Digital rehabilitation
- Device: Conventional rehabilitation
- Sponsor
- Sword Health, SA
- Collaborators
- University of California, San Francisco
- Start date
- 2021-08-04
- Primary completion
- 2022-12-16
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 80 Years
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Subjects aged between 18 and 80 years of age at enrolment 2. Reporting intermittent or persistent shoulder pain for at least 12 weeks, and/or present at least 50% of the time in the past 6 months 3. Lack of visual/audio or cognitive impairment interfering with the ability to understand or comply with the program Exclusion Criteria: 1. Non-English speaking 2. Residing outside greater SF area 3. Known pregnancy 4. Submitted to spinal surgery less than 3 months ago 5. Symptoms and/or signs indicative of possible infectious disorder 6. Referred pain from spine and/or thoracic outlet syndrome 7. Active cancer diagnosis or undergoing treatment for cancer 8. Cardiac, respiratory or other known disorder incompatible with at least 20 minutes of light to moderate physical activity 9. Concomitant neurological disorder (e.g. stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease) 10. Dementia or psychiatric disorders precluding patient from complying with a home-based exercise program 11. Illiteracy and/or serious visual or auditory impairment interfering with communication or compliance
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04636528