The study aims to establish whether one month postoperative immobilization compared early passive motion after rotator cuff arthroscopic repair in small or medium ruptures with double row technique has any healing significance.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
114
Shoulder exercises starting on the first postoperative day
Sling for 4 weeks
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
RECRUITINGMRI
Time frame: 6 months
ASES (American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Subjective Shoulder Scale)
The ASES is 100-point standardized shoulder-assessment self-report form, 50 points of which are derived from patient self-report of pain on a visual analog scale and 50 points of which are computed from a formula using the cumulative score of 10 activities of daily living derived using a four-point ordinal scale.
Time frame: 1, 3, 6 months
Range of Motion
Time frame: 1, 3, 6 months
VAS of pain
visual analogue scale of pain
Time frame: 1, 3, 6 months
WORC
The Western Ontario Rotator Cuff Index (WORC) is a self-report questionnaire developed specifically to evaluate disability in persons with pathology of the rotator cuff of the shoulder.
Time frame: 1, 3, 6 months
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