Efficacy of standardised manual therapy and home exercise programme for chronic rotator cuff disease: randomised placebo controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the efficacy of a programme of manual therapy and exercise treatment compared with placebo treatment delivered by physiotherapists for people with chronic rotator cuff disease.

Design

Randomised, participant and single assessor blinded, placebo controlled trial.

Setting

Metropolitan region of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Participants

120 participants with chronic (>3 months) rotator cuff disease recruited through medical practitioners and from the community.

Interventions

The active treatment comprised a manual therapy and home exercise programme; the placebo treatment comprised inactive ultrasound therapy and application of an inert gel. Participants in both groups received 10 sessions of individual standardised treatment ove

SUBMITTER: Bennell K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2882554 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature