Extrait

Background and study aims Determining the cause of symptoms for people with musculoskeletal problems of the shoulder (that is problems involving the bone and/or muscles of the shoulder) is complicated and fraught with difficulty. Many people without symptoms have tears of the tendons and have problems involving the structures (for example, the bones and connective tissues making up the shoulder joint, or the muscles) associated with the shoulder. As such many clinicians have started to use assessment techniques that change and improve the patient’s symptoms as a method of determining how best to treat the person with shoulder symptoms. One such method is the Shoulder Symptom Modification Procedure. The reliability of these procedures is largely unknown. The aim of this study is to assess how reliable clinicians find the Shoulder Symptom Modification Procedure in identifying and being able to treat the cause of shoulder pain in their patients. Who can participate? Patients should be over 18 years old with diagnosed shoulder pain. What does the study involve? Patients recruited into the study identify a movement, posture or activity that causes or reproduces their symptoms. Physiotherapists apply the procedures of the Shoulder Symptom Modification Procedure to these symptoms and the patients report the response, for example, can they carry out a procedure that is asked, or does a procedure improve their symptoms, does a procedure make their symptoms worse, or does it make no difference to them at all. The assessment that the physiotherapist makes as to what is causing a patients shoulder problems is then looked at to see whether they agree with other physiotherapists. What are the possible benefits and risks of participating? Possible benefits is to see whether the techniques associated with the Shoulder Symptom Modification Procedure are reliable. The techniques used are commonly used in clinical practice and as such there are no identifiable risks associated with participation for the patient participant’s involvement with the investigation. Where is the study run from? University of Limerick When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run for? December 2015 to July 2016 Who is funding the study? Investigator initiated and funded Who is the main contact? Dr Jeremy Lewis

Critère d'inclusion

• Shoulder pain of musculoskeletal origin

Liens

• ictrp
• isrctn