Rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP): semistructured patient interviews to explore the barriers and enablers to rehabilitation exercises.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to explore the barriers and enablers to physiotherapist-prescribed rehabilitation exercises for people with rotator cuff-related shoulder pain (RCRSP) and to guide the development of a theoretically informed intervention for people with this condition. Eleven people receiving physiotherapy for RCRSP (M=69 ± 12 years) participated in semistructured interviews. Data were analysed using content analysis, the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF). The following barriers and enablers were identified in line with the six themes and assigned relevant TDF domains. (1) The impact of previous knowledge and experience on beliefs, (2) therapeutic relationships, (3) expectations around diagnosis, (4) a long and slow pathway to treatment, (5) patients' experience of doing the home exercis

SUBMITTER: Singh V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11481144 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature