Rotator Cuff Tear
Conditions
Brief summary
The study aims to establish whether one month postoperative immobilization compared early passive motion after rotator cuff arthroscopic repair in small or medium ruptures with double row technique has any healing significance.
Interventions
PROCEDUREPostoperative early passive motion
Shoulder exercises starting on the first postoperative day
OTHERSling
Sling for 4 weeks
Sponsors
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 90 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients skeletally mature (older 18 years old) * Small or medium rupture of rotator cuff * Repaired with arthroscopic double row technique
Exclusion criteria
* Impossibility to perform MRI (claustrophobic, pacemaker, heart or brain metallic implants) * AC arthritis with mumford procedure * Smokers * Diabetes * Postoperative complication (severe pain, thrombosis, infection) * Psychiatric disorder
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| MRI | 6 months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ASES (American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Subjective Shoulder Scale) | 1, 3, 6 months | The ASES is 100-point standardized shoulder-assessment self-report form, 50 points of which are derived from patient self-report of pain on a visual analog scale and 50 points of which are computed from a formula using the cumulative score of 10 activities of daily living derived using a four-point ordinal scale. |
| Range of Motion | 1, 3, 6 months | — |
| VAS of pain | 1, 3, 6 months | visual analogue scale of pain |
| WORC | 1, 3, 6 months | The Western Ontario Rotator Cuff Index (WORC) is a self-report questionnaire developed specifically to evaluate disability in persons with pathology of the rotator cuff of the shoulder. |
Countries
Argentina
Contacts
Primary ContactJuan M. Lopez Ovenza, MD
Outcome results
None listed