Journal article
Efficacy of standardised manual therapy and home exercise programme for chronic rotator cuff disease: randomised placebo controlled trial.
K Bennell, E Wee, S Coburn, S Green, A Harris, M Staples, A Forbes, R Buchbinder
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2010
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c2756
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the efficacy of a programme of manual therapy and exercise treatment compared with placebo treatment delivered by physiotherapists for people with chronic rotator cuff disease. DESIGN: Randomised, participant and single assessor blinded, placebo controlled trial. SETTING: Metropolitan region of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: 120 participants with chronic (>3 months) rotator cuff disease recruited through medical practitioners and from the community. INTERVENTIONS: The active treatment comprised a manual therapy and home exercise programme; the placebo treatment comprised inactive ultrasound therapy and application of an inert gel. Participants in both..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
KB is funded in part by an Australian Research Council future fellowship. RB is funded in part by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council practitioner fellowship. This work was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (project grant #299840). Pilot funds were provided by ANZ Trustees, Department of Physiotherapy and Victor Hurley Grant Royal Melbourne Hospital and the School of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne. The study sponsors had no role in the design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or in the writing of the article and the decision to submit it for publication.