Smartphone-based Mobility Assessment and Individualized Exercise Programs for Patients With Frozen Shoulder

Frozen Shoulder Clinical Trial

Official title:

Smartphone-based Mobility Assessment and Individualized Exercise Programs for Patients With Frozen Shoulder

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03883659
• Other study ID #: FStraining
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: August 2019
• Source: National Yang Ming University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the smartphone goniometer app to measure shoulder ROM in a modified position for patients with frozen shoulder, and compare the intervention effect and adherence to home exercise between the smartphone and traditional paper hangouts.

Description:

This study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the smartphone goniometer app to measure shoulder ROM in a modified position for patients with frozen shoulder, and compare the intervention effect and adherence to home exercise between the smartphone and traditional paper hangouts. The outcome measure including shoulder range of motion, pain condition, home exercise adherence and satisfaction of smartphone program

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 11
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: July 3, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• gradual shoulder pain and stiffness at least 4 months

• loss of active and passive shoulder mobility, shoulder external rotation <45 degree

• ability to use the smartphone

Exclusion Criteria:

• normal shoulder mobility

• diagnostic shoulder osteoarthritis

• nerve pain

• injection of corticosteroids in 3 months

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Bursitis
• Frozen Shoulder

Intervention

Other:
• Smartphone
patients with frozen shoulder in the smartphone group will use the smartphone to conduct the home exercise program. The patients will be asked to follow the description to have mobility assessment at least 1 week and do the individualized exercise themselves.
• traditional paper hangouts
patients with frozen shoulder in the smartphone group will use the paper hangouts to conduct the home exercise program. The content of the paper hangouts were description of the home exercise.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Tri-Service General Hospital	Taipei	Neihu District
Taiwan	Yang Ming university	Taipei

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
National Yang Ming University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	home exercise adherence	the days patients do the home exercise program	4 weeks
Secondary	shoulder range of motion	the mobility of shoulder	baseline, 4 weeks
Secondary	Visual analog scale (VAS)	Ranged form 0 (minimum score) to 10 (Maximum score) ,the higher score represent more painful	baseline, 4 weeks
Secondary	System usability scale (SUS)	the satisfaction scale of the smartphone program	4 weeks