Examining the separate and combined effects of physiotherapy treatment and corticosteroid injection on range of motion and pain in patients with full tickness rotator cuff tear.
- Conditions
- Examining the separate and combined effects of physiotherapy treatment and corticosteroid injection on range of motion and pain in patients with full tickness thickness rotator cuff tear.
- Registration Number
- IRCT20200102045987N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Dezfoul University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 96
Patients with degenerative rotator cuff tear confirmed by MRI and clinical examination.
30_70 years old
No metastasis or cancer
No concurrent shoulder disease like fracture and infection
Patient collaborations and having informed consent
No severe cervical radiculopathy
Full consciousness
No therapeutic intervention by the persons not presenting in the plan
No trauma during treatment
No contraindication of corticosteroid injection like sensitivity to these drugs and symptoms of skin infection at the injection site
Over than 70 years old
Existence of Metastasis or cancer
Existence of concurrent shoulder disease such as infection, fracture and tumor
Non-cooperation of the patients
Impaired consciousness in patients
Existence of severe cervical radiculopathy
Therapeutic intervention by the persons not presenting in the plan
Trauma during treatment
Contraindications of corticosteroid injection such as sensitivity to these drugs and symptoms of skin infection at the injection site
Tears caused by acute trauma
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain score of patients on the criterion VAS(Visual analoge scale). Timepoint: The shoulder ROM in patients at the beginning of the study (before intervention) and at the end of physiotherapy sessions and one month after the last physiotherapy session. Method of measurement: Questionnaire DASH.;Shoulder Range of motion. Timepoint: The shoulder ROM in patients at the beginning of the study (before intervention) and at the end of physiotherapy sessions and one month after the last physiotherapy session. Method of measurement: Goniametr.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method