The Effects of Yoga on Patients With Rotator Cuff Injuries

Overview

To determine if patients who undergo a 6-week online yoga exercise treatment differ from those who undergo a 6-week online standard exercise intervention and patients who do not undergo any treatment (the control).

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Treatment
    • Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: October 20, 2016

Detailed Description

Patients awaiting rotator cuff surgery spend months waiting for a doctor's consultation and even longer for surgery. The proposed study is to see if there is a difference between three groups: patients who follow an online yoga video, patients who follow an online standard exercises video and patients who do not undergo either treatment (control).

Interventions

  • Procedure: yoga
    • patients watch and follow an online yoga video.
  • Procedure: standard exercises
    • patients watch and follow an online standard exercises video.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: yoga intervention
    • patients in the group are asked to follow an online video instructing them various yoga poses. Patients in this group are asked to do the yoga exercises 2-3 times a week, for a total of 6 weeks.
  • Experimental: standard exercises intervention
    • patients in this group are asked to follow an online standard exercises video. Patients in this group are asked to follow specific exercises 2-3 times a day, for a total of 6 weeks.
  • No Intervention: control
    • patients in this group carry forth with their daily activities. They are not asked to follow the online yoga video or the online standard exercise video.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (Pain Level)
    • Time Frame: 6 weeks
    • Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (self-report)
  • Range of motion (Shoulder Impairment)
    • Time Frame: 6 weeks
    • Shoulder range of motion will be measured using a goniometer (performance-based).

Secondary Measures

  • Treatment satisfaction
    • Time Frame: 6 weeks
    • Yes/No question about overall satisfaction (self-report).

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • minimum 18 years old – rotator cuff injury – access to YouTube Exclusion Criteria:

  • under 18 years of age – patient has past yoga experience – patient will/has undergone any surgery other than rotator cuff

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: 70 Years

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Lawson Health Research Institute
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Principal Investigator: Joy MacDermid, Co-Director, Hand and Upper Limb Clinical Research Lab – Lawson Health Research Institute
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Joy MacDermid, PhD, Principal Investigator, Western University, Canada
    • Dolly Mehta, M.Sc., Principal Investigator, Western University, Canada

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