Digital Therapy in Shoulder Rehabilitation.

University of Padova22 enrolled

Overview

Digital therapy may provides real time visual feedbacks. Instrumented devices objectively quantify the patient's performance during rehabilitation and thus could be helpful for the personalization of the exercises. The interactive ball of this trial allows measuring both movement and pressure applied on it. Therefore, the objectives of this study are: (i) to evaluate whether the use of a novel digital therapy gaming system was therapeutically relevant during shoulder rehabilitation; (ii) to understand whether the device was effective in improving patients' engagement in comparison to a control non-gaming rehabilitation program.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Shoulder Pain

Interventions

PGBEHAVIORAL

Shoulder Digital therapy

CTRLBEHAVIORAL

Shoulder non-digital therapy

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 40 YearsMax age: 70 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * impingement syndrome, capsulitis, tendon injuries, degenerative joint or tendon pathologies * pain between 2/10 and 8/10 on a visual analogue scale Exclusion Criteria: * post-surgical patients * inability to perform active exercises * peripheral neurological deficits * cervical-brachialgia * algodystrophy

Locations (1)

Nutrition and Exercise Lab, DSB, University of Padova

Padua, Italy

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

shoulder pain

Shoulder pain by means of Visual Analogue Scale (no pain:0; maximal pain: 10)

Time frame: From baseline up to two weeks

shoulder strength

Shoulder strength by means of an isometric maximal voluntary contraction measured in kilograms

Time frame: From baseline up to two weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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