Reducing shoulder complaints in employees with high occupational shoulder exposures: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled study (The Shoulder-Cafe Study).

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Denmark, exercise therapy in combination with work modification is the first-choice treatment for persons with shoulder complaints and high occupational shoulder exposures. To obtain this treatment they must visit several healthcare providers, which makes usual care fragmented and uncoordinated. Therefore, we developed a new intervention which unifies the expertise that is needed. The main hypotheses are that a group-based Shoulder-Café intervention will more effectively reduce (1) shoulder complaints and (2) occupational shoulder exposures than an individual-based Shoulder-Guidance intervention (active control - enhanced usual care).

Methods

A cluster-randomised trial is conducted including 120 employees with high occupational shoulder exposures. Companies (cl

SUBMITTER: Trostrup J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6852773 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature