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A comprehensive understanding of healthy shoulder motion is a valuable contribution to the academic literature and provides a basis of comparison for various shoulder pathologies and treatments. However, the medical community is primarily interested in how pathology affects shoulder function and the underlying musculoskeletal reasons for impaired function associated with specific pathologies. Rotator cuff tears (RCT) provide an excellent model to study shoulder biomechanics because RCTs can cause significant functional impairment and can be quantified in size and location using standard clinical imaging techniques. Upon completion of this study a comprehensive database of three-dimensional joint angles and EMG patterns of the structures of the shoulder joint complex of dominant and non-dominant during common activities of daily living will be available for healthy subjects and those of subjects whose dominant limbs are impaired by rotator cuff tears. These data will show normal muscle activations and movement patterns required to complete activities of daily living and compare them to the movement, and muscle activation patterns of persons who exhibit muscular and movement dysfunction due to rotator cuff tears.


Clinical Trial Description

Rotator cuff tears occur in approximately 20% of patients older than 65 years and increase with age. These non-traumatic RCTs are generally caused by normal age-related degeneration. Surgical treatment is effective, however recurrence of injury is common especially when the original tear was caused by age related degeneration. Non-surgical treatment options are designed to decrease pain and improve performance of activities of daily living and may be an effective alternative to surgery. If non-surgical treatment options are unsuccessful, surgical treatment may be considered. When rotator cuff tears are treated surgically, postoperative rehabilitation is an important factor in determining outcome success, however there is uncertainty regarding the best protocols for post-surgery rehabilitation. Evidence suggests that a more complete understanding of motion and muscle activation is necessary to design effective and reliable rehabilitation programs for rotator cuff injuries. These data will enable medical professionals to better answer a range of clinical questions. They will provide health care professionals and researchers with a knowledge of relative muscle contributions to specific joint motions required to perform activities of daily living. This information is well suited to refine input variables for computer models and robotic testing platforms which can improve virtual and cadaver testing of shoulder impairment and repair models. Understanding the limitations to movement caused by RCT, and the resulting muscle activation patterns, will inform better surgical indications and enable therapists to better design rehabilitation protocols to enhance recovery from rotator cuff tears with or without surgery, as well as develop programs to limit future tears. Knowledge of muscle activation patterns during activities of daily living will also allow pre-habilitation protocols to be tailored for a subsequent surgical procedure such as reverse shoulder arthroplasty. These data will also assist in the design of shoulder prostheses whose biomechanical characteristics will compensate for deficiencies present in a shoulder joint impaired by rotator cuff injury. The knowledge gained from this study will provide a basis for future studies investigating traumatic shoulder injuries and the design of effective rehabilitation protocols for such injuries. ;


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NCT number NCT04571268
Study type Observational
Source More Foundation
Contact John D McCamley, PhD
Phone 634.241.8721
Email john.mccamley@more-foundation.org
Status Recruiting
Phase
Start date January 28, 2019
Completion date December 30, 2022

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