A randomized controlled trial of a modified wheelchair arm-support to reduce shoulder pain in stroke patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effect of modified wheelchair arm-support to mitigate hemiplegic shoulder pain and reduce pain frequency in stroke patients.

Design

A single-blind randomized controlled trial using computer-generated simple randomization.

Setting

Participants recruited from inpatients at the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine.

Subjects

A total of 120 patients with stroke were divided into two groups.

Interventions

All subjects underwent basic rehabilitation training and wheelchair assistance with eight weeks follow-up period. Patients in the treatment group additionally received modified wheelchair arm-support for at least 60 minutes a day, six days a week, for four weeks.

Outcome measures

Primary outcome was measured by th

SUBMITTER: Pan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5751850 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature